The goalkeeper in the frame: Pomasun broke the 30-year-old curse of “Sparta” with a penalty kick.

Pomazun broke the 30-year-old curse of Sparta by winning two penalty shootouts in a season. Pomazun is the first goalkeeper in the history of Sparta to win two penalty shootouts in a season. Until this year, Sparta hadn’t won a penalty shootout since 1994. The red-and-white team lost to Terek, Celtic, CSKA, Volga, Rostov, Tosno, Zenit, and Dinamo Mkh. This season, Pomazun won both shootouts. Both times, he came on as a substitute during the shootouts. Thanks to these victories, Sparta won its first trophy since 2022.