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unusual facts about penalty kick


Tommy Sale

Despite most of his goals coming from open play, Sale was a penalty specialist; it is reported Sale only missed one penalty in his entire professional career.


1938 Norwegian Football Cup Final

Goals were scored by Thorleif Larsen after five minutes and Knut Brynildsen, on a penalty kick after 40 minutes for Fredrikstad; Mjøndalen reduced with goals by Trygve Halvorsen and Jørgen Hval after 60 and 63 minutes, respectively.

1988 FA Cup Final

The Merseysiders were awarded a penalty on the hour mark following a foul by Clive Goodyear on John Aldridge, though replays showed that Goodyear won the ball cleanly, but Aldridge's penalty was saved by Beasant's diving save to his left, thus becoming the first keeper to save a penalty in a Wembley FA Cup final.

2004 Football League Cup Final

Five minutes after Job's goal, Middlesbrough won a penalty when Job was tripped in the Bolton box by Emerson Thome.

Ann Van Elsen

In 2006, Van Elsen presented the first prize to the winner of the "Pinanti is Pinanti" penalty taking competition in the TV1 sports program Studio 1 op zondag, football player Désiré Mbonabucya.

Charles Gbeke

Gbeke made his China League One debut for Guangzhou against Beijing BIT on April 3 and earned a penalty kick in 23rd minute, which helped China national team striker Gao Lin score his first goal for Guangzhou.

David Lapsley

Lapsley was originally signed as a centre forward but quickly established himself as a right back and was well known in Paisley for his strong, committed approach to the game, and was more recently compared to modern-day footballer Jörg Albertz for the directness of his free-kicks and penalties.

Francisco Bizcocho

In 1976–77 Bizcocho played 27 games as Betis finished fifth, and scored the decisive penalty in the season's Copa del Rey final, a 8–7 shootout defeat of Athletic Bilbao.

Greg Pearson

Pearsons 10th goal of the season came 7 games later on 15 November 2008 in the 0–1 victory at Lewes after Aswad Thomas felled Lee Morris and Greg Pearson converted the penalty right before half-time.

Luke Tilt

The then manager of Walsall, Paul Merson, named Tilt on the substitutes bench for the first time in his career and after an injury to first choice keeper Andy Oakes, Merson was forced to put in Tilt for the second half where Brentford were winning 2-0 and lost the match 5-0, after Tilt conceded three goals from Paul Brooker, Sam Sodje and a Kevin O'Connor penalty.

Oceanian nations at the FIFA World Cup

In the first leg in Melbourne, Australia won 1–0 after Kevin Muscat scored from a penalty kick; however, Australia's qualification campaign ended unsuccessfully as they lost 3–0 in the away leg in Montevideo just five days later with the South Americans proving too strong.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

On 15 June 2013, Aubameyang scored a hat-trick of penalty kicks in Gabon's 4–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying win over Niger.

Tony Chapron

Prior to 2008, the only international matches he had refereed were qualifying matches, but in October 2008, Chapron took charge of the UEFA Cup first round second leg between Aston Villa and Litex Lovech; he showed two yellow cards – both to Litex players – but also awarded Litex a penalty kick.


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2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group C

Panama's Gabriel Enrique Gómez converted a penalty kick in the 33rd minute, which ended up being the winner.

Andy D'Urso

On 29 January 2000 while refereeing the game between Manchester United and Middlesbrough, D'Urso awarded Middlesbrough a penalty kick when Juninho was tackled by Jaap Stam.

Andy Straden

In the first U.S. game of the Olympics, the U.S. defeated Estonia off a tenth minute Straden penalty kick.

Banks Setlhodi

He was nicknamed "Banks" after 1966 World Cup winner and former Hellenic goalkeeper Gordon Banks, when he saved a fierce penalty kick from the British XI's Rod Marsh.

Diego Castro

On 13 March 2011, after Nacho Novo gained a penalty kick in the last-minute of an away fixture against Villarreal CF, he converted it in Panenka-style for a final 1–1 draw – the visiting team was then reduced to only nine players.

Diego Tardelli

He made his debut on 20 January 2012, missing a penalty kick 30 minutes after coming on as a substitute in a 2–0 loss against Al Khor.

Erwin Ramírez

In that year he played all matches for Ecuador, and scored a penalty kick against Bolivia (4-0) at the 1991 Copa América in Chile.

Fenway Football Challenge

Celtic striker Georgios Samaras was awarded a penalty kick and capitalized in the 71st minute.

Fran Swan

He holds the honour of scoring Bohs first ever goal in Europe when slotting home a penalty kick against TJ Gottwaldov in the 1970-71 European Cup Winners' Cup

Jamal Al Sharif

Two matches in 1986, one in 1990 and three in 1994, including the second round match between Bulgaria and Mexico, where his decisions to send off the Bulgarian player Emil Kremenliev and to award a penalty kick to the Mexican side were largely disputed after the match.

Jim Blyth

The game reached its zenith in the final minutes when Blyth saved Jim Ryan's penalty kick to help the Sky Blues to a 5–4 victory.

Mika Stadium

The first ever goal in Mika Stadium was scored by the Ukraine U-19 player Andriy Yarmolenko with a penalty kick at the 18th minute of the match.

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.

Sebastião Gilberto

In the second half he scored from penalty-kick for Angola 3–0 lead and later in the game Seydou Keita penalised him for another penalty kick for Angola.