Goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene Explains His Cool Penalty Kick Past Itumeleng Khune!
Goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene Explains His Cool Penalty Kick Past Itumeleng Khune! The penalty kick went viral after he sent Khune the wrong way.
Goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene Explains His Cool Penalty Kick Past Itumeleng Khune! The penalty kick went viral after he sent Khune the wrong way.
Kennedy Mweene stepped up to take a score a penalty against Kaizer Chiefs on Sunday. He then went on to save more penalties in the shootout.
Mweene elaborates that he in an experienced penalty taker. He knew that Khune would move so he waited before he struck the ball.
The penalty went viral because of the way Khune reacted to the ball itself.
“I am a goalkeeper; I know the weaknesses of a goalkeeper.” He told the Mamelodi Sundowns website.
“We don’t have the patience to wait, especially when the kicker is taking a long [time] to kick.
“The longer the player takes the more impatient we become as goalkeepers [what we prefer is] when the referee blows the whistle, the kicker runs to you and finds you ready.
“Those are some of the other things which most of the in-field players don’t take into consideration, we are not as patient as players when they are taking long to kick.”
“One thing (that players do) nine times out of ten they show you the way they stand on the ball if they are a left footer their right leg will always point where they are going.
“If they are right footed, their left foot will show exactly where they are going, it’s a trick which not a lot of people know. It’s a few players that change but out of ten, I can tell you the way the player stands tells you where they are going.” He spoke.
They will play Abafana Bes’thende in the semi-finals of the MTN 8. Goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene Explains His Cool Penalty Kick Past Itumeleng Khune!
