Panenka

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He creates the most beautiful stories with the most gorgeous, yet ordinary, characters and, with a stroke of a pen, captures the reader and immerses them completely into his world.

As a young man, Panenka played for the team loved and supported by everyone in his area but failed to score a crucial goal in a crucial match described in detail over four pages: “Seneca were relegated and spent the next 25 years outside the top division.The move is known for only being used by confident penalty takers who dare to risk missing the kick.

Former England captain Gary Lineker infamously failed a Panenka which at the time, would have put him level with Bobby Charlton for the England team's top scorer, the missed penalty instead leaving him one goal behind on 48 for the rest of his career. I'm not saying that characters who are meant to represent "ordinary" people can't be reflective and have deep conversations and use metaphors, but the characters all speak in the exact same type of highly stylized language and almost exclusively have deep conversations with each other, like 80% of the book is that.In association football, the panenka is a technique used while taking a penalty kick in which the taker, instead of kicking the ball to the left or right of the goalkeeper, gives a light touch underneath the ball, causing it to rise and fall within the centre of the goal, deceiving the goalkeeper who most likely will have committed to a dive away from the centre. Andrea Pirlo Panenka penalty: Andrea Pirlo explains that spot kick that bamboozled Joe Hart at Euro 2012". After extra time, the result was 2–2, and so the first penalty shootout in a European Championships final ensued. This is why, in both books, he says, “there’s very few physical descriptions, no surnames, no place names. With the score at 3 to 1 in favour of Sydney FC, Santalab took Perth's third penalty, attempting a Panenka, but Sydney FC goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne was expecting it.