It's a good 3 minutes into stoppage time of the second and possibly last game of a round robin soccer tournament. Your team was shut out of the first game and the only way they can continue playing is if you win or tie and another team looses. A penalty kick form about quarter field that has been called back twice when the referee blows his whistle a third siganals that is will now be a penalty kick from inside the goalkeepers box. He set the ball at the designated penalty kick area, where you must kick the ball past a goalkeeper who has shut your team out for the past 93 minutes in stellar fashion. On top of this, a local pub/brewery owner has promised a life time of free beer to anyone who makes a goal in this game.
Question; what is on you mind more, the goalkeeper or the beer?
We can ask Ivaiac Vastic. At 39 he is the oldest player in the 2008 Euro tournament. He made the goal and reportedly the pub owner is freighting him the first years supply within a couple of days. The kicker is that the Euro Futball commissioner is not allowing the Vastic to accept the gift. "We do not need this kind of motivation." I would ask what better motivation is there to score a goal?
