At the 1976 European Championship, Panenka in Czechoslovakia surprised the entire football world with an unprecedented performance of an 11-meter kick. Instead of trying to break through to the very corner, Antonin lightly scooped the ball into the center of the goal, thus scoring the winning goal in a penalty shootout against West Germany and bringing his team championship.

Already in the 21st century, many took a punch from a point in a similar style - here you can remember the legendary captain Francesco Totti, another equally famous Italian Andrea Pirlo, and even our compatriot Artem Milevsky. Nevertheless, the inventor of “Panenka” himself thinks that the best way to repeat his trick is to Captain Real Sergio Ramos.

“Ramos has already done this at least twice, right? I think that it is he who best performs my blow, because he did it more than once”.

“The rivals know that he can punch so, but he still scores in this way, which is just great”.

"I like Spanish football. Even if there are no goals in the matches, I always find something interesting in them.. By the way, I myself almost ended up in this championship.. I wanted to sign a Real Murcia, but this did not happen in the end ".

"I’ve been a kicker before Euro 1976 for two years. We are constantly practicing a penalty with the goalkeeper of the national team Zdenek Grushka. He was very good, because I always lost him money and chocolates ".

"Then I thought that the goalkeeper always jumps into one of the corners, so a good idea would be to punch in the center.

After I began to use this blow, I began to win much more often against Zdenek ".

“The problem is that I became fat because I started eating a lot of chocolates,” Goal quotes Panenku.. com.

Sergio Ramos was the first to score a goal in the style of Panenka at Euro 2012 in the penalty shootout against Portugal. Since then, he has repeatedly scored in a similar way..

The last “Panenku” Ramos successfully performed recently - in the match of La Liga between Real and Valladolid (2: 0).