5 sensational penalty misses by goalkeepers 

#3 Rogerio Ceni

Let’s talk a little about Rogerio Ceni. ‘Who the ****,’ goes the mind of the uninitiated and what I am about to write now will change the ‘who’ to ‘how’.

Rogerio Ceni is one of that rare breed of players who stuck with just one club for their entire professional career. In the case of Ceni – a Brazilian – he played for Sao Paulo for an astonishing 23 years. Given that he is 44 now, it could be claimed that the man’s playing career with Sao Paulo was more than half of his life.

No, no, this is not the conversion from ‘who’ to ‘how’ part. Good things come to people who wait.... okay, that’s enough hype: Rogerio Ceni scored 131 goals in his professional career. Jaw has dropped already, hasn’t it?

Despite the fact that most of his goals came via penalties and free-kicks, scoring over a century of goals as a goalkeeper is a milestone in itself. However, even he is not beyond the pain of missing a spot kick.

Sao Paulo were trailing 1-0 against Corinthians as the former gave away a penalty in the 54th minute of the game. Obviously, Ceni went ahead to complete his duty of taking the spot-kick, but his shot went straight to the legs of the opposition goalkeeper and then crashed off the cross-bar to deny him the chance to equalise in the game.