Panenka

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In association football, the panenka is a technique used while taking a penalty kick in which the taker, instead of kicking the ball to the left or right of the goalkeeper, gives a light touch underneath the ball, causing it to rise and fall within the centre of the goal, deceiving the goalkeeper who will most likely have committed to a dive away from the centre.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Panenka (penalty kick)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: David Sedlecký, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.