The FIFA President claiming that football loses its "essence" when deciding a match through a penalty shoot-out, of the kind that ended Chelsea's hopes in the Champions League.
This year the final of the Champions League Chelsea was won through the penalty shootout by Bayern Munich. And this season, shoot outs decided the African Nations Cup, where Zambia beat Ivory Coast.
Also crowned the 2006 World Cup champion Italy with France, while the 1994 gave Brazil its fourth title after beating Italy's RobertoBaggio with the same fate.
·If you think so, what can it be replaced with?
Alvaro Fuertes
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I totally agree with Joseph, I think that football is a sport where they participate 11 members in each team and that finishing a match with individuality it loses his grace. I think the best idea for replacing the match penalty shoot-out is adding 15 minutes extra and the first team in score a goal wins the final match.
ReplyDeleteI personally think that removing the penalty shoot-outs round would take away all the experiences and sensations that are felt during the rounds. While it is true that many times the final result is not fair, I think it is an extremely painful way to end the match not only for the fans and peaople who are going to watch the soot-out round, but for the players themselves, because psychological tiredness is quite an issue.
ReplyDeleteThe thing is that it may benefit the team which has best played during the match and therefore deserves the victory, but, on the other hand, it may be the perfect solution for teams which have not played their best match and find it is a good opportunity to win if they have an expert goalkeeper and skillful penalty shooters.
I agree with Gerard with the fact of adding extra 15 minutes repeatedly until one of both teams scores a goal and they would be the final winners, but the problem is that if it takes too long to score what is known as the “golden goal”, keep adding 15 minutes would result eternal for players and their physical fatigue would wear them down completely.
I certanly don't agree with joseph blatter, as I think it is the only way to finish a match if there are no winner during the 120 minutes. what do they expect? play until someone scores? it could pass hundreds of years to score a goal.
ReplyDeletei think a team isn't prepared to play at the same intensity they play more than 120minutes, so then why should they play more time?
i don't have an interest in seeing wich team can resist more and deffend their phisical aptitudes.
I think penalties are part of the game and FIFA shouldn't take them as it makes no sense adding more time because the players are already very tired. A draw would not be fair as only one team should win. I know is hard for the fans and for the sportsmen to lose by penalties but as they say "penalty shoot-out is a lottery" and you never know what is going to happen.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it is fair to blame the player how misses the kick as it is also very hard for them. I know a case in which Pierre Wome, Cameroon player, missed a penalty in the 90' when they were playing a match to pass to play the world cup and after that many Cameroon fans burned his house, his car and his wife's hairdresser, I think this poor attitude is a big disgrace for football.
José Mª Casals
In my opinion, the penalty shootout is essential for football tournaments. Of course people might think that is kind of luck but the penalty shootout is just another part of the game in which people who know how to shot them win and people who don't, loose.
ReplyDeleteWhat players need, instead of thinking it is bad luck, is to practice more and more to ensure that things like "the penalty of Ramos" Doesn't happen again. It's completely understandable that the team who looses hates the penalties shootouts and the other one loves it but, finally, winning in the penalty shootout counts the same that winning in the extratime.
What they could do, if the don't like penalties, is just take the example of tennis where the penalties are the tie-breaks. In every tournament there are tie-breaks except in the last set of the granslams. Getting the simile, I would propose just to stop the penalty shootout in really important matches of the competition such as semifinals and finals.
Jaume Planas