Mikel Merino mimicked the celebration of his father, Miquel, after scoring for Spain to put them ahead of Germany in the cusp of extra time.
Like father, like son. Clenching his fist, Mikel Merino ran around the corner flag with a broad smile on his face before putting his head back and letting out a yell of pure joy into the Stuttgart sky. Merino had just scored the last-gasp goal in extra time that sent Spain into the semifinals of the European Championship with a 2-1 win over host nation Germany after extra time in a pulsating match.
' Merino senior told Spanish radio Cadena SER he felt 'enormous' pride when his son scored and imitated his celebration. That goal came in a UEFA Cup match between Miguel Merino's Osasuna and Stuttgart in November 1991. 'The point was to make me look bad,' joked Miguel Merino, who never played for Spain. 'If he had already surpassed me, now I don't have the exclusivity of the Stuttgart goal, either.
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