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unusual facts about penalty area



2006 Basel hooligan incident

The ball was thrown in, some twenty meters further forward from the correct point, to the right flank of the field, from where midfielder Florian Stahel crossed the ball into the Basel penalty area.

Prêmio Belfort Duarte

It is named after Belfort Duarte because in a game he mentioned to the referee that he committed a foul in his club's penalty area.


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1949 England vs Ireland football match

Ireland took the lead in the 33rd minute when Peter Desmond, after collecting a pass from Tommy O'Connor, burst into the England penalty area and was brought down.

2006 Basel hooligan incident

The Basel defense failed to remove the ball from their penalty area and it came to Zürich defender Iulian Filipescu who shot the ball past Basel goalkeeper Pascal Zuberbühler into the left hand corner of the goal.

Nathan Redmond

His driven shot from outside the penalty area was pushed aside by goalkeeper Elisson and led to Chris Wood heading against the crossbar.

Reg Leafe

Later that season in the second leg of the semi-final in Austria, Leafe was at the centre of a massive row when deciding that the Rapid Vienna forward Robert Dienst had dived in the Benfica penalty area in the last minutes of the game.

Rob Styles

In awarding Birmingham City a penalty 13 minutes from time during the Premier League game at St Andrews on 29 March 2008, Styles caused many observers in the media to question whether the away side's Sun Jihai had actually fouled home striker Gary McSheffrey in the penalty area, or merely been punished for a legitimate shoulder-to-shoulder challenge, which would ordinarily have brought no sanction whatsoever.

Sebastian Prödl

On 12 June 2008 during the Euro 2008 Austria vs. Poland game he was fouled in the 92nd minute in the penalty area and the referee, Howard Webb, awarded Austria a penalty kick.

Tsang Man Fai

He scored a goal in the penalty area of his team and assisted his teammate Makhosonke Bhengu to scored the winning goal in his first professional match.