India, June 30 -- Michel Platini, Zico and Socrates scored six international penalty goals each. Platini and Socrates never missed from the spot during regulation time for France and Brazil. Neither had Zico before that steamy afternoon in Guadalajara. At different points in that World Cup match, three of the greatest attacking midfielders of their generation failed from 12 yards.

In regulation time, Zico won a penalty with the 1986 quarter-final poised at 1-1. His effort came at a good height for Joel Bats who saved diving to his left. In the shootout, Socrates's shot, after a one-step run-up, looped in the air and Bats kept it out. With the tie-breaker at 3-3, Platini, who had scored from open play to equalise after Antonio Careca had ...