{"id":363057,"date":"2026-03-24T19:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363057\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:25:12","slug":"antonin-panenka-on-penalty-fame-a-half-century-on-playing-behind-the-iron-curtain-and-what-ireland-can-expect-in-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363057\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonin Panenka on penalty fame a half-century\u00a0on, playing behind the Iron Curtain and what Ireland can expect in Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Czech legend looks forward to Ireland showdown, fifty years since his spot kick became famous and repeated across the world ever since\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aidan Fitzmaurice with Antonin Panenk at the stadium of Bohemians in Prague, the club Panenka served as a player and where he still has a background role.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/64fd1a48-c88f-4e28-82fd-84f9a96ea6d5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Aidan Fitzmaurice with Antonin Panenk at the stadium of Bohemians in Prague, the club Panenka served as a player and where he still has a background role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the few seconds it takes to park his car \u2014 it\u2019s not a designated parking spot but as a national icon, he parks where he wants \u2014 and walk to meet his guest from Ireland, the 77-year-old is stopped for a selfie by a woman in her 20s. She\u2019s young enough to be his granddaughter, but she is well aware of who he is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s not just one halo of fame over the head of Antonin Panenka, but two. Here in Prague, he\u2019s on home ground, literally, as we meet at the stadium of Bohemians, the club he served as a player and where he still has a background role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Czech legend looks forward to Ireland showdown, fifty years since his spot kick became famous and repeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,61,60,112,102024],"class_list":["post-363057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}