During the 1976 European Championship Finals, a 5ft 10 in Czechoslovakian player Antonin Panenka looked unperturbed as he fired the decisive penalty kick into the German goalpost. The finely chipped ...

The Panenka penalty involves chipping the ball delicately into the center of the goal, anticipating that the goalkeeper will dive to either side. The move is as much about psychology as it is about ...

The film also recalls the tense anthems, Zidane’s shoulder injury on 80 minutes, a superb Buffon save and David Trezeguet’s ...

The Panenka penalty is often thought of as an act of naked showboating, a needless risk taken by overly cocky players at inopportune moments. But when the player in question is the preternaturally ...

It takes a special bit of flair to successfully execute the Panenka penalty. Czech midfielder Antonin Panenka introduced the world to the technique when he beat German goalkeeper Sepp Maier in a ...

Fortune favours the bold, in most cases perhaps, but for Morocco’s Brahim Diaz, he found out the hard way that there is a flip-side to that coin. In football there is nothing quite as audacious as ...

Dango Ouattara didn’t kill the Panenka. He only drove another nail into its coffin on Monday night. In case you missed it, Ouattara was the only one of nine takers who failed to score in the shootout ...

Brahim Diaz was left in tears after his fluffed ‘Panenka’-style penalty cost Morocco their first Africa Cup of Nations title in 50 years in a chaotic final against Senegal. The Real Madrid midfielder ...

(CNN) — Spain celebrated its first international trophy in 11 years after beating Croatia on penalties in the UEFA Nations League final on Sunday. Dani Carvajal’s cheeky ‘Panenka’ penalty settled the ...