Soccer is a game of pace and patience, of angels and angles.

This is a beautiful game at its finest. Our clip of the week is a collection of the 50 greatest soccer goals, a masterful 20-minute assortment of headers, footers and thunder-strikes.

All the stars are here: English wunderkinds Beckham and Owen, the bucktoothed Brazilian magic man Ronaldinho (‘as electrifying as a hair dryer thrown in a hot tub’), ice-cold finishers like Marco van Basten and long range assassins Clarence Seedorf and Roberto Carlos.

See that pudgy pestilence Maradona, he who so tormented Englanders from Manchester to Leeds in 1986. Watch Ronaldo in all his glory, a plumed Brazilian bird of flight slicing his way through defenders. Marvel at Henry’s brilliance, Rivaldo’s miracle bicycle leveler in 2000 and Bergkamp’s smooth Dutchness.