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^^^ So once again:Quote from: bouli77 on July 19, 2011, 03:13:59 AMi'm not the biggest fan of penalty kicks but you're exaggerating a bit when you call that "pure luck each". It's more than that. It takes courage, skills and mental stability to take penalty kicks. That's why there are nations that are notoriously bad at penalty kicks (Italy, England) and nations that are fucking unbeatable (Germany never lost any penalty kick session ever), if that was pure luck the stats would be even for each team. That's a psychological thing more than anything. Basically i view things like this : if you win the penalty kicks, you have proved to be the most capable under pressure, you have shown character and values. It's based on intuition, self-confidence and skills... of course without skills you can still score a penalty kick, but you're more likely to fold under pressure, especially at a crucial moment like that. now a well-taken penalty can never be stopped, and that's what the germans are excellent at.Not too hard to understand, right. This ain't a pissing contest which sport is better. I wouldn't waste my time pointing out how lame I think Baseball is.
i'm not the biggest fan of penalty kicks but you're exaggerating a bit when you call that "pure luck each". It's more than that. It takes courage, skills and mental stability to take penalty kicks. That's why there are nations that are notoriously bad at penalty kicks (Italy, England) and nations that are fucking unbeatable (Germany never lost any penalty kick session ever), if that was pure luck the stats would be even for each team. That's a psychological thing more than anything. Basically i view things like this : if you win the penalty kicks, you have proved to be the most capable under pressure, you have shown character and values. It's based on intuition, self-confidence and skills... of course without skills you can still score a penalty kick, but you're more likely to fold under pressure, especially at a crucial moment like that. now a well-taken penalty can never be stopped, and that's what the germans are excellent at.
Right, 120 minutes (with a break at 45 & a bunch of 15-30 second ones in between) is almost pushing human limits. Despite the fact there are marathon runners who run 26 miles straight in four hours lol.I mean, I pray you guys watch more Soccer than me.http://www.youtube.com/v/KuIXWs41EQc&feature=related You going to lie to me & say everybody is running every single second? It just doesn't happen. Stop talking like it's nonstop all out sprinting?
As for teams having higher & lower percentages on penalty kicks, that's just who has better kickers. It says nothing about it for the goalie. It's still luck. If I flipped a coin 100 times, you think it would land on heads & tails 50 times each? There is just a 50% chance it lands 50 times each. But it can land on heads 75 times. Shit, technically speaking, it can land on heads 100 times. So a goalie can guess right more than others. LOL, I even just watched a Youtube video of Portugal kicking penalty kicks & the announcer said, "Oh, he guessed the right way". Nigga said GUESSED lol.
& you couldn't point out a flaw in Baseball as far as the sport itself. You can say it's slow & boring, but when it comes to picking a winner whether it takes 9 innings or 29 innings, they play the same game they've been playing to determine a winner. You actually can't point out one flaw in Baseball, Basketball or Football. The only thing you could talk about is nonsense like, they use steroids or like I said, Baseball is stoo slow. But as far as how the sport is designed, it's flawless. Until the day they end a Basketball game on a free throw contest, I have a hard time seeing where I'm wrong.
cham just watch ur baseball and eat a dick at the same time
Quote from: MAINE GANGSTA on July 20, 2011, 11:57:20 PMcham just watch ur baseball and eat a dick at the same timeYou're from Carribean Islands & you live in Canada. You have no say in anything.
yeah i admit PK's is a terrible way to end a game, especially a WC final, but there's still something interesting to it though and it's a compromise, however frustrating it is. but a lot of things need to changed / improved as far as soccer : the use of the video to disallow or allow goals, pk's, etc. however, the institutions are so rotten to the core that i doubt well see a change soon.and i admit a lot of soccer nuts are dumb about they rant about the alleged superiority of "their" sport... not targeting anyone in this topic because people actually provided interesting points but each time i check a soccer or an american football video on youtube there are reams of posts about what sport is better and usually the soccer guys are the ones to start shit up
IMO soccer is a sport where ur conditioning makes or breaks a team, espically in extra time, but the PK shoot out is pretty shitty, my suggestion for them would be to make the shooter step back a few yards to give the goalie a dying chance so they dont make blind dives. that would make it harder for the shooter and it would test the goalies skills.
11m is fine by me. This is a dramatic and thrilling way to end games. If you don't want to rely on that, go for the win, you have 120 minutes to enforce a decision.Robert Enke saved 10/23 penalties in his career, more than 40%, you don't get this number by "blind dives"
Quote from: Furor Teutonicus on July 22, 2011, 04:11:04 AM11m is fine by me. This is a dramatic and thrilling way to end games. If you don't want to rely on that, go for the win, you have 120 minutes to enforce a decision.Robert Enke saved 10/23 penalties in his career, more than 40%, you don't get this number by "blind dives"that's exactly what i think too... however Cham is right it doesn't determine which team is really the better one and that fucks me up a little bit.
Quote from: bouli77 on July 22, 2011, 07:42:37 AMQuote from: Furor Teutonicus on July 22, 2011, 04:11:04 AM11m is fine by me. This is a dramatic and thrilling way to end games. If you don't want to rely on that, go for the win, you have 120 minutes to enforce a decision.Robert Enke saved 10/23 penalties in his career, more than 40%, you don't get this number by "blind dives"that's exactly what i think too... however Cham is right it doesn't determine which team is really the better one and that fucks me up a little bit.But the factor luck which is PART of penalties add a great deal of emotion and drama to the game.