About Jorginho's Unique Penalty

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Some British media flattered Jorginho's penalty when Chelsea won a landslide victory over Huddersfield. Is the penalty really cool? Or is it actually banned?

Jorginho started his debut in the Premier League by making one goal that gave Chelsea a 3-0 victory over Huddersfield Town. The new midfielder brought from Napoli registered his name on the scoreboard through the penalty spot.

The way Jorginho kicked the penalty then became the attention of many people and British media. Some call Jorginho's penalty a 'cold execution', while others question its validity.

Jorginho's style of executing a penalty is unusual, at least in the Premier League. After taking a swing and running a few steps, he changed the rhythm of the swing of his leg just before firing.

Jorginho is like doing a small jump, it makes the goalkeeper fooled. From that moment he can direct the ball to a position opposite the direction of the goalkeeper.

"The coldest penalty kick you've ever seen," wrote NBC Sport.

The style of penalty twitching before kicking the ball has actually become the Brazilian-style midfielder's trademark. When in Naples he often used it. Some succeed, even though some fail.

Some other players also use similar techniques, although not the same. One of them is Mario Balotelli. Super Mario often slows down the pace just before kicking the ball. The aim is to make the keeper move first, then he then kicks the ball in the opposite direction.

Lionel Messi did it, even though he got a yellow card and the penalty was repeated.

What Balotelli and Messi did was known as Paradinha. A Portuguese term meaning 'pause'. Reportedly this technique was first introduced by Pele at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico

But in 2010, a few months before the 2010 World Cup kick-off, IFAB, the official association of FIFA football rules makers, banned the use of Paradinha in the World Cup and official tournaments.

Does Jorginho's penalty technique include Paradinha?

"It was strange. He (Jorginho) jumped before kicking a penalty and Ben (Hamer) had already dropped his body. So I don't know why the referee didn't decide to repeat the penalty," Huddersfield striker Steve Mounie protested.

"It's a little strange. The referee must explain to us because I don't know why the penalty was not repeated," he said.

If you look back at Jorginho's kick, some parties think he did not do Paradinha. Jorginho did not stop (for a moment) before kicking the ball. All he did was change the rhythm of the leg swing, from the one that ran into the jump.