In almost any country in the world, scoring a goal in the game of soccer - er, futbol - can bring you hours, days, months or even years of fame.

But could it bring you a lifetime supply of beer?

Oh, yes it can. A Vienna brewery is promising a lifetime supply of free beer to any Austria player who scores a goal for the co-hosts in their remaining Euro 2008 group matches against Poland and Germany.

“Maybe this is the kind of motivation that will give them the last kick our team needs to be successful,” Ottakringer Brauerei AG chief executive Sigi Menz said in a statement, adding he would personally deliver the brewers’s supply for the first year.

This comes after an Austrian pub announced that it would give out free drinks for every red card that was given out.

And you thought the Irish were big drinkers. Do Austrians even have livers?

Photo Couresy TheAge.com