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 ...
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 ...
Czech footballer Antonin Panenka, whose cheeky winning penalty technique against Germany in the 1976 European Championship has been copied by some of the game's greatest players, is in intensive care ...