THE likes of Neymar and Paul Pogba are renowned for their lengthy penalty run-ups, but a game in Asia may just have produced the longest of all time. One penalty during a shootout took a whopping 38 SECONDS to take, putting Neymar and Pogba to shame. With his team trailing 1-0 in the shootout, the […]
THE likes of Neymar and Paul Pogba are renowned for their lengthy penalty run-ups, but a game in Asia may just have produced the longest of all time.
One penalty during a shootout took a whopping 38 SECONDS to take, putting Neymar and Pogba to shame.
With his team trailing 1-0 in the shootout, the unknown player stepped up from 12 yards.
But after marking out his run-up, the player took an age to shuffle towards the ball in what seemed like slow motion.
He even added a Jorginho-style hop-and-a-skip in there just for good measure.
There must be method to the madness though, as the goalkeeper dived the wrong way as the ball finally arrowed into the back of the net.
The video soon went viral on social media, being viewed over one million times on Twitter in less than 24 hours.
And fans aren’t happy with the length of time it took for the penalty for to be taken.
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One wrote: “Ref should have booked him,” for the eternity it took for the penalty to be taken.
That might have been Dinamo Zagreb forward Bruno Petkovic in disguise, after he was SENT OFF last month for a stuttering run-up.
Others thought that their video was buffering, when it was in fact just the player inching like a snail towards the ball.
An amused comment read: “I thought my phone froze!”
Some didn’t even bother waiting for the end of the video after it took so long for the player to take the spot kick.
One social media user joked: “I fell asleep. Did he end up taking the penalty?”
There were also comparisons to Italy international Simone Zaza, who famously skied a penalty in a Euro 2016 shootout against Germany after a bizarre stuttering run up.
This latest technique takes Zaza’s to a whole new level though…
