Dovbyk and Soulè will make history, as happened in Beccalossi. Asamoah disappeared, Saka was insulted: the cases and episodes that make a mistake a negative obsession. And the final one in Pasadena …
Terror football. The rigorist who starts executioner and after the mistake becomes victim, throughout his life he will have to deal with a trauma. Which never exceeds, but must be elaborated, managed, metabolized. Maximum example: Roby Baggio, Rose Bowl of Pasadena, under a carrion sun in the city of the angels of papier-mâché, 17 July 1994, final Italy-Brazil. The ball ended beyond the crossbar, crossed the blue, forwarded in the clouds and finally disappeared, making its traces lose forever but not the memory, planted like a nail on the collective memory. Baggio confessed to dream of him again, that damned penalty. A nightmare of eleven meters, more karma than plaster. Jorge Valdano wrote that “the rigorist must first of all endure fear”. For information ask Dobyk and Soulé, protagonists of the craziest penalty in the world, beaten in Rome -Lilla not one, not two but – Rollino the drums – three times.