From Zero to Hero

Remember Martin Palermo? Well for you avid football fans out there, you surely must have known him from his past & present exploits on the field, be it a club level or with the international team. For you who are not & need some introduction, here is an interesting one for you; Martin Palermo missed three penalties for Argentina in a single game in 1999.

That sends him into the record book. Not a normal one – Guiness Book of World Records. Now, that is surely not something you want to be proud of.

Anyway, after a 10-year exile he was recently called back into the national team, much to everyone’s surprise. Surely he looks forward to make amends for his decade-old error, don’t you think? Make amends he did, scoring arguably the most important goal for his national team this year in the dying stages of last night’s World Cup qualifying match. That keeps Argentina hope of reaching South Africa in next year alive.

People would not forget about those three missed penalties. But if Argentina goes through, whenever Martin Palermo’s name is uttered in the future, people would also recall that famous goal which saved the nation from embarrassment.