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Panenka penalty

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– a type of penalty kick where the ball flies in a lobbing trajectory, dipping into the goal. The penalty is named after Czechoslovak midfielder Antonin Panenka, who scored a deciding penalty in the final of the 1976 UEFA European Football Championship against West Germany this way.

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vocabulary Mark Twain: "Let us live so that when we die even the undertaker is saddened."