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No Responses to "Neymar looks silly as his" Panenka "penalty is saved easily by Vitoria keeper Lee"
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Neymar looks silly as his "Panenka" penalty is saved easily by Vitoria keeper Lee
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"Panenka" style penalty that saw Uruguay past Ghana in the World Cup finals.
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Brazilian wonder kid Neymar has already copied one of the standout moments of the World Cup by chipping a penalty, "Panenka" style in a friendly for Santos on Sunday.
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Well, Panenka shot it like this in the last and decisive kick of the European final Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1976, and got totally famous for it.
Boing Boing 2006
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The most famous penalty shot (and I think the first one) to the middle was taken by Panenka in 1976 (YouTube).
Boing Boing 2006
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It is so famous that it has a name: when a penalty is shot softly to middle, say, 1 meter or 1.5 meters above the ground (like the second Ukrainian kicker did on Monday in the penalty shoot-out against Switzerland), it is said that the penalty was shot a la Panenka.
Boing Boing 2006
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And although two of them were penalties, they were a hell of a pair of penalties - the second a Panenka, the first an absolute rocket that actually hit the roof of the net from the inside, while still rising.
The Guardian World News Sid Lowe 2011
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When Baldini dinked a penalty coolly down the middle, I remarked Panenka'' to Neri.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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When Baldini dinked a penalty coolly down the middle, I remarked Panenka'' to Neri.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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