The secret to help the goalie win in the brain weighing penalty kick

Goalkeepers can turn to victory if they find a way to make the player distract the ball in front of goal.

Penalties or penalties to determine the outcome of a World Cup football match can be one of the most dramatic and stressful moments in sports. For low-scoring matches, penalties are often decisive, according to Popular Mechanics.

After each team performs 5 official penalties, the team with more successful penalties wins. If the two teams have equal number of successful penalties, continue the penalty shootout until there is a successful team in the shot and the other team fails.

Andrea Pirlo made a panenka penalty kick in the European football championship in 2012. (Photo: Shortlist).

The international teams that were too defensive to the level of 4 of the 6 World Cup finals recently had to play overtime, and penalized the winning team in the World Cup in 1994 and 2006. However, in At the penalty shootout, the advantage is often in favor of a penalty player. If the goalie can catch the ball even once or cause the player to miss, the final result will be established.

The position of the free kick is 11 meters from the goal. The best player can kick the ball at a speed of up to 129km / h. This means it will hit the goal line in 500 milliseconds. The goalkeeper takes 600 milliseconds to move from the main center of the goal to 7.32 meters to one of the goalposts. A good free kick will definitely become a goal.

Studying 138 penalty kicks in the World Cup finals from 1982 to 1994 showed that even the world-class goalkeepers could not avoid failure. They only guessed the direction of the shot in 41% of the catches and the winning rate was 14.5%.

A change in regulation in 1997 was introduced to help the goalkeeper have more opportunities to prevent a free kick but could make the situation worse. Before that, the goalkeeper had to stand in the middle of the goal until the player hit the ball. The new rules allow the goalkeeper to move from one end to the other, even though they are still not allowed to rush towards the penalty player.

A decade ago, this regulation contributed to promoting players to use paradinha penalty kick. Brazil's best penalty kickers often stop near the penalty spot, swing their legs to distract the goalkeeper before kicking the shot. Basically already in a passive position, the goalie became even more difficult when facing this type of stone.

Grobbelaar distracted AS Roma player and missed the ball with a curl.(Video: YouTube).

A British researcher said that in this intense game, the free kick player just ignored the goalkeeper. In an article published in Sports Sciences magazine, Greg Wood, a psychologist at Exeter University, assembled 18 players at the university team and equipped them with eye movement monitoring equipment. The player focuses on the goalie, who defeats 40% of the kicks compared to 20% in calm players and is likely to ignore the goalkeeper.

"When players are worried, they are more afraid of the goalkeeper," Wood said. According to Wood, the goalkeeper can enhance the effect and win the free kick by actively distracting the player, as in the case of Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar twisting his legs on the lime line in the European Cup. Europeans in 1984 and goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek waved their hands in the European Cup finals in 2005. "If the goalkeeper can make himself more formidable, he will definitely attract the attention of the players. More kicks , " Wood said.