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none of them named after the player that put it into the cultural consciousness, if the elastico was called a ronaldinho, or the roulette a zidane, and you could call it such and people would know what you were talking about then they would be the same as a panenka. But they are not.
Its like when Roberto Carlos scored that freekick against france, it wasn't called a roberto carlos or a carlos, or a roberto, it was just a curled freekick or as we called them back in the day a curler.. Others had done it before, and others will do it after, he didn't invent it and isn't credited with it.
what immediately comes to mind in this back and forth is gymnastics, where moves, vaults, positions, etc are named after the person who invented/showed them competitively for the first time.
Tsukahara's name is one of the most famous in gymnastics due to its association with two widely performed skills. The first is the full-twisting double salto in the tuck position (with the full twist in the first salto). The Men's Gymnastics Code of Points credits Tsukahara for premiering this skill on floor exercise and horizontal bar, and he regularly performed it on these events throughout his career. In fact, in many nations, it is customary to call a full-twisting double salto tumble or dismount a "Tsukahara" on all apparatus, both for men and women. This skill is sometimes called a "Moon Somersault" or "Moon Salto".
Tsukahara is also credited with having invented a vaulting technique called the "Tsukahara vault". This vault is generally described as a roundoff over the horse/table into a backward salto, with or without twist.