nothing in soccer quite like a missed panenka penalty. That's what Venezuela's Luis Seijas gave to the world during Venezuela's Copa America -Centenario loss to Argentina on Saturday. His spot kick was chipped softly into the arms of Sergio Romero and Manchester United's second-string -stopper then threw the ball out with -utter -contempt.
That's the only reasonable reaction from a goalkeeper who has not been -victimized by what is potentially the most embarrassing of penalty kicks in soccer. Seijias missed with his country just 2-0 down to the Albiceleste and he changed the complexion of the game. It could have ended so differently.
Fair play to him for trying. The -Independiente Santa Fe midfielder gave it his best shot. And he had good reason to go for it. Stats website fivethirtyeight has it that World Cup penalties are over 70 percent converted and everyone knows that the panenka is the best of them. But when it goes wrong ...
It's happened to the best of them. Andrea Pirlo Nike Air Max Soldes Pas Cher , who scored a cool-as-you-like panenka over England's Joe Hart in a Euro 2012 shootout, once missed one for AC Milan in a Champions League shootout against Barcelona. His dollied up effort was not the worst.
Some of the best players in the game have made the same mistake as Seijias. Cristiano Ronaldo missed one in the Champions League against FC Copenhagen, Neymar once fluffed it against FC Vitoria when he was at Santos and Roma legend Francesco Totti has missed as many as he has scored for the Gallorossi.
At the risk of looking like a chump, why would you try to chip the keeper from 12 yards (11 meters)? As Dennis Bergkamp said in his excellent autobiography Stillness And Speed of lobs in general, "Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal. But I said Nike Air Max Soldes , 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right? It's not a lot. And how much space do you have above him? There is more. It's a question of mathematics.'" That's even more true with penalties.
The Panenka pen is the lob writ large. Ever since Antonin Panenka strolled up at the end of the 2-2 draw between Germany and his Czechoslovakia side in the final game of the 1976 European Championship, it's been a part of the public consciousness. And his name has come to be a byword for coolness personified.
The man himself said it was the easy option: "On the contrary, I chose the penalty because I saw and realized it was the easiest and simplest recipe for scoring a goal. It is a simple recipe." Simple. Until it goes wrong.
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