FIFA president Sepp Blatter has labelled penalty shoot-outs "a tragedy" and challenged Franz Beckenbauer to come up with an alternative.
Beckenbauer, honorary president of Bayern Munich, is also head of the Football Task Force 2014 which has been charged with recommending rule changes and Blatter said the body should now look at penalty shoot-outs.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has labelled penalty shoot-outs "a tragedy" and challenged Franz Beckenbauer to come up with an alternative.
Why doesn't blatter come up with an alternative?
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yeah thats what we will do, we will run the players ragged until they colapse by taking a player of every 5 minutes until someone scores. wouldnt work.
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first team that scores in normal time wins if it is a scoring draw
it gives incentive to attack from the start of the game
and subsequently, incentive for the team that concedes to attack the game thereafter because they need at least 2 goals to win
scoreless draws... keep the penalty shootout, if neither team can score in 120 minutes of football then it is probably best to make it easy for them and have penalties
MG&Son wrote:yeah thats what we will do, we will run the players ragged until they colapse by taking a player of every 5 minutes until someone scores. wouldnt work.
They won't run ragged for long because someone will score pretty quick
rulebritania wrote:nothing wrong with the current arrangement
Sepp is an idiot and must've lost money on Bayern Munich
and the African Nations Cup is hardly a major tournament, its not even in the same stratosphere as the Champions League
To who? You? To the nation it is huge.
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I know some Youth tournaments (very young) in Europe dont have penalties, but they have players dribbling from the half way line, have a certain time limit (say 8 secs for example) for a 1v1 with the keeper .....
Željko Jurin wrote:I know some Youth tournaments (very young) in Europe dont have penalties, but they have players dribbling from the half way line, have a certain time limit (say 8 secs for example) for a 1v1 with the keeper .....
That was also used in america in the late 70's. Much prefer a penalty shoot out.
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Željko Jurin wrote:I know some Youth tournaments (very young) in Europe dont have penalties, but they have players dribbling from the half way line, have a certain time limit (say 8 secs for example) for a 1v1 with the keeper .....
good idea to train youths in one-on-one, but for seniors no better than a pen shootout, plus it would waste more time and kill some of the suspense
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The only thing that's bad about penalties is the way that the coin toss is such an advantage. (Think about 60-65% of shootouts are won by teams going first.)
Instead of alternating kicks, where A wins the Toss and goes first (A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B) they need to adopt the tennis method (A,B,B,A,A,B,B,A,A,B)
On one hand it could be pointed out that penalty-taking is a skill and they should be retained & perhaps it should go straight to penalties after 90 mins without extra-time.
On the other hand, the proposal to reward the team that scores first is interesting. At least the crowd has seen a goal and the other team has to attack and attack again to go 2-1 up to win.
But how would that go down throughout the World that a game which finished a 1-1 draw is given to the team that scored first?
Corners could be a tie-breaker. Back in antiquity that was used in the Scottish Cup & I remember it here in Adelaide in school soccer-football.
However, players could earn cheap corners by deliberately kicking the ball against a defender near the corner flag and not even be going for goal.
I reckon a case could be mounted for counting corners conceded in the 6-yard goal area or within the 18-yard penalty area during extra-time. At least then the team who attacked and forced these corners would be rewarded.
But overall I can't see any of the above measures being adopted as the World wants to see the ball hit that net in any ultimate way of deciding.
