Arhan's Primary Death Throw Reminds Us Of Rory Delap

Pratama Arhan (Photo: PSSI)

JAKARTA - The quality of the throw into Pratama Arhan has received attention from fans of national football. The PSIS Semarang defender can send the ball directly in front of the opponent's goal from outside the field line.

The technique reminds people of the English footballer who is now coach, Rory Delap who can throw the ball as far as 40 meters.

Arhan's skills are one of coach Shin Tae-yong's options in scoring goals against opponents.

This tactic paid off when Arhan's throw-in assisted Saddam Gaffar's goal in a test match against Qatar in Croatia on Sunday 20 September.

The U-19 national team left-back said that his technique of throwing in the distance had been done for a long time.

"I taught myself and have been doing it since 2017," said Arhan on the PSSI website, Tuesday, September 22.

Arhan was transformed into Shin Tae-yong's mainstay left back during a trial match in Croatia.

Of the five matches, fans of Marcelo and Ricky Fajrin filled the first eleven lists four times. Only in the match against Bulgaria did Arhan sit on the bench.

"Hopefully I will one day play in Europe. In addition, I want to break into the senior national team squad and make achievements and make both parents proud," said the player who was born in Blora, December 21, 2001.

He will have the opportunity to show his skills again in the next test matches against Bosnia and Herzegovina on September 25 and Dinamo Zagreb on September 28, 2020.

Meanwhile, the Guinness World Records world record for the farthest throw-in is still held by American player Michael Lewis when he made a throw-in as far as 59,817 meters in a match at Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas, April 2019.