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 ...

Sebastian Abreu's winning penalty for Uruguay was one of the most audacious shots to win a shootout since Antonin Panenka made the move famous to win the 1976 European Championship. Abreu's chip ...

This is the fifth in a series about the 16 triumphant teams in the European Championship before the 17th edition is played in Germany next year. So far, we’ve looked at the USSR in 1960, Spain in 1964 ...

When it goes right, it looks incredible, bold and brave. When it goes wrong, as Venezuela's Luis Seijas found out Saturday night, it's one of the most embarrassing moments in sports. And 40 years ago ...

It is now nearly 49 years since Antonin Panenka won the European Championship for Czechoslovakia. After Germany’s Uli Hoeness had missed in the penalty shoot-out that followed a 2-2 draw in the 1976 ...

The panenka is a work of art. The skill it takes to pull off a chipped penalty kick, even more so the confidence to try it, is beautiful. Why is it called a panenka and when did it make its way into ...

GOAL takes a look at the history of a move that has revolutionised the way that spot kicks are taken since coming to prominence in 1976 The Panenka is an ingenious but simple way of taking a penalty ...

Former Czech football Antonin Panenka, famous for a cheeky winning penalty in the 1976 European Championship final which made his name part of football terminology, has been discharged from hospital, ...

Prague (AFP) – Zinedine Zidane, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Andrea Pirlo have all done it: instead of blasting a penalty kick into the net, they fool the diving keeper by chipping the ball into the middle ...