On the spot: 50 of the most famous – and infamous – Panenka penalties of all time | Soccer
By: Guardian sport | Published: 2026-08-03 06:00:43 | Source: www.theguardian.com
It is 50 years since Antonin Panenka won the European Championship for Czechoslovakia with the most audacious penalty ever taken. His signature chip wasn’t instantly eponymous. A search of the British newspaper archives shows that it was barely mentioned until Francesco Totti dusted it off for the internet generation at Euro 2000.
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It was at least another decade before Panenka was commonly…
