of Manuel Negrete's bicycle kick is planned for the Coyoacán district of Mexico City. The Uruguayan novelist Eduardo Galeano wrote about the bicycle kick in his book Soccer in Sun and Shadow, praising Unzaga as the inventor. The Peruvian Nobel laureate writer Mario Vargas Llosa has the protagonist in The Time of the Hero's Spanish edition declare that the bicycle kick must have been invented in Callao, Peru. The manoeuvre is also admired in variants of association football, such as beach soccer and futsal. In 2015, Italian beach soccer forward Gabriele Gori reportedly stated about the bicycle kick that "[i]t comes down to an awful lot of training". An action like the bicycle kick is also used in sepak takraw, a sport whose objective is to kick a ball over a net and into the opposing team's side. See also Association football tactics and skills History of association football Scorpion kick (reverse bicycle kick) Notes References Bibliography External links BBC Sport Academy – Step-by-step guide to perform a bicycle kick. Grassroots FIFA.com – Information on basic and special football techniques. UEFA Training Ground – Professional footballer explains the technique required to execute a successful bicycle kick. Kick (association football) Association football skills Association football terminology Association football in South America