Tunisian side Etoile show Henry, Pires how to do it with genius penalty goal for Baghdad Bounedjah
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ByEurosport
Updated 19/07/2015 at 10:55 GMT
Tunisian club Etoile Sportive du Sahel played Marseille in a friendly on Saturday night and they certainly made the most of their moment in the spotlight.
Etoile score their penalty
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Losing 4-0 to the Ligue 1 giants, Etoile were awarded a penalty with six minutes remaining.
Rather than just bang the spot-kick home for a bog-standard consolation, they thought they would try something a bit more audacious. So audacious, in fact, that even Thierry Henry and Robert Pires once contrived to mess it up.
In the video above, Youssef Mouibhi and Baghdad Bounedjah show the former Arsenal pair how to do it as the former rolls the ball to the latter to score.
Here’s what happened when two of the Premier League’s finest ever players attempted the same thing:
Henry and Pires’ foul-up was itself an attempted tribute to the first of the genre – Johan Cruyff’s amazing goal for Ajax when he exchanged passes with Jesper Olsen in 1982.
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