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Scorpion Kick

Hawkeye Pierce

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At half time the Reserves have a kick about in the goal mouth. Jamie Nay entertained the Town fans as goalkeeper with a partly successful scorpion kick. For those who are less sure what the scorpion kick it was first created by Columbian José René Higuita Zapata.

 

"He is famed for inventing the "scorpion kick", a clearance where the keeper jumps forward, arches his legs over his head and in doing so, kicks the ball away with his heels. This save earned him notoriety when he pulled it off in a friendly game against England in September, 1995,"

 

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