Penalty kick

There's perhaps no other refereeing decision, in any sport, that causes the deep emotional reaction of the awarding of a penalty kick. When the call is made for a spot kick from 12 yards out, the response is typically either a flurry of expletives and impending sense of doom or the feeling of utter joy derived from receiving a blessing, depending on which side of the call you are.And it seems these feelings are warranted — stats show that there’s a 75-80% chance of the penalty being…

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Penalty-kick shootouts—those nerve-racking tiebreakers in the World Cup—give the advantage to shooters, who kick the ball at speeds of up to 80 mph from 12 yards away. Here's how goalies can use physics to beat the odds.

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