This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE It was not the final that either General Tito or the nation had anticipated when Yugoslavia was chosen to host the finals of the 1976…
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The penalty kick is the rawest distillation of psychology and repetitive practice in football – but what makes a player good or bad at them?
They had defeated England and the Netherlands against the odds, and when Czechoslovakia faced West Germany in the Euro 76 final, few gave them a chance
“I WAS ONE-THOUSAND percent certain that I would take the penalty in that way and that I would score.” That is the matter-of-fact assessment of one of the most iconic images of an…