A professor London School of Economics Ignacio Palacios Huerta asked a question: are a penalty kicks fair way to decide a winner. Think, only for a second, how many important games are decided by penalties in football history. How many teams and how many players lost their dreams in that 15-30 minutes. It takes that much approximately to finish penalty series. Huerta and his assistants considered 2820 penalties in top world leagues and international competitions in period of 1970-2008. They discovered that team that is shooting first has more chances to win. When referee is flipping coin and determinating who is going to shot first, commercials are usualy on, but they think that is the moment, that is deciding winner. In only one case, out of 20, the player that won flipping coin chose for his team to shot penalty second. It was a match on European Championship between Italy and Spain, and team that shot penalty second lost the game. Researchers were interviewing players and coaches all around the world and 96% of them thinks that the second team to shot penalty is underpressure. Just think about how flipping coin can decide a winer of World Cup, Champions League, European Championship... Huerta is suggesting that Fifa and Uefa should consider tie-break as a solution, like in tennis. First penalty taker shots first, second shots twice, first one shots twice again. We will see how this will end up.
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