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NOT everyone has heard of Atonín Panenka, but the former Czech international has the distinction of having a penalty-taking technique named after him. Panenka, who played most of his league football for Bohemians Prague, won the 1976 European Championship with Czechoslovakia, scoring the winning penalty in the final against
West Germany. He used the technique that now bears his name, otherwise known as the ‘falling leaf”. Panenka dinked a softly-chipped ball down the midd...