Men's Health Australia

POCKET ROCKET

THE TERM “low centre of gravity”, when applied to cars, can sound as nerdy as Elon Musk reading A Brief History of Time aloud, but it’s actually a simple enough concept, if you put it in football terms.

Because the fact is that one of the big reasons that tiny geniuses like Lionel Messi and Eden Hazard are so fascinatingly fabulous to watch is that they are both so low to the ground, with small but seemingly super-human legs (and gargantuan glutes).

This allows them to run past tall-timber players

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