FOOTBALL - Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 28th penalty goal in La Liga in Real Madrid’s 2-0 win over Celta de Vigo on Saturday. He has now equalled Míchel in second place on 28 penalty goals for Real Madrid in La Liga.
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FOOTBALL - In the past months, we have done meticulous research on penalty takers, especially the ones involved in a Euro 2012 squad. England and Italy were the first to contest a penalty shootout and we are now ready to evaluate our own predictions.
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FOOTBALL - We could see penalty shootouts for the first time at Euro 2012 matches and we have made a prediction on what is going on in the minds of each penalty taker. We will present all eight goalkeepers with a penalty cheat sheet. Click Read More to see Gianluigi Buffon’s. He is hoping to stop England.
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FOOTBALL - We could see penalty shootouts for the first time at Euro 2012 matches and we have made a prediction on what is going on in the minds of each penalty taker. We will present all eight goalkeepers with a penalty cheat sheet. Click Read More to see Joe Hart’s. He is hoping to stop Italy.
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FOOTBALL - We could see penalty shootouts for the first time at Euro 2012 matches and we have made a prediction on what is going on in the minds of each penalty taker. We will present all eight goalkeepers with a penalty cheat sheet. Click Read More to see Iker Casillas’s. He is hoping to stop France.
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FOOTBALL - We could see penalty shootouts for the first time at Euro 2012 matches and we have made a prediction on what is going on in the minds of each penalty taker. We will present all eight goalkeepers with a penalty cheat sheet. Click Read More to see Hugo Lloris’s. He is hoping to stop Spain.
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FOOTBALL - Now that penalty shootouts can become a way to decide Euro 2012 matches, we are confident that we can make a fair prediction on what is going on in the minds of each penalty taker. We will present all eight goalkeepers with a penalty cheat sheet. Click Read More to see Manuel Neuer’s. He is hoping to stop Greece.
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FOOTBALL - Now that penalty shootouts can become a way to decide Euro 2012 matches, we are confident that we can make a fair prediction on what is going on in the minds of each penalty taker. We will present all eight goalkeepers with a penalty cheat sheet. Click Read More to see Petr Cech’s. He is hoping to stop Portugal.
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FOOTBALL - Now that penalty shootouts can become a way to decide Euro 2012 matches, we are confident that we can make a fair prediction on what is going on in the minds of each penalty taker. We will present all eight goalkeepers with a penalty cheat sheet. Click Read More to see Rui Patricio’s. He is hoping to stop Czech Republic.
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FOOTBALL - Hans-Jörg Butt is 38 years old today. Being a goalkeeper, Butt has scored an incredible 26 goals in the Bundesliga as a goalkeeper. At every club he played for, Butt was the penalty kicker. Only by Bayern Munich has he never kicked a penalty. In 2003-04, after scoring a penalty in an away match against FC Schalke 04 on 17 April 2004, Butt started his retreat in which he was met by his excited teammates. Immediately after he raised his hand to signal readiness (while still jogging back toward his net), Schalke player Mike Hanke shot the ball from the halfway line and scored on the oblivious keeper.
Click here to see this incredible penalty. And the counterattack.
Shares birthday with: Ian Fleming, Gladys Knight, Kylie Minogue
FOOTBALL - If you need an example of how to take penalty kicks, look no further than the German Bundesliga, which has seen its last 16 penalty kicks -and 25 of the last 26- converted. The German top flight’s present conversion rate of 89% is on course to crush the single season record.
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