mls back in the 90s lol

ideally, wouldn't you want a penalty shot system that was balanced to create a success rate around 50%? that way you'd be least likely to still be tied after 5 shots each

50/50 honestly would be the same or favor teams with higher skilled players

either flick ball over the goalie or do a quick direction switch and tap it in distance from net allows for so many posibilities


but yeah i would prefer this over actual penalties more fun to watch

looks so strange, i have so many question:


why did the keepers raise their arm when the attackers just went around them?
were the attackers limited to a certain amount of touches or why did they have such loose ball control?
were they not allowed to just chip the ball over the keeper?

i just assume that like with hockey penalties the ball was not allowed to be played backwards, right?


if anyone could explain this to me, ideally with a source, i'd appreciate that.

this is so weird

This is weird but interesting. Seem like it would open the doors for the goalie to commit fouls and stuff lol

Does the goalie get a red card if the "fouls the last man standing?" haha

The attacker had like 7 seconds or something from the time the red blew the whistle. And the ball control was so bad because they were semi professional players back then lol.

I remember watching a New York cosmo documentary about when pele was there. They did this kind of shoot out, and every single professional player from the big teams in the world said they liked it more

I prefer the current soccer rule of awarding a 12 yard death strike for felonies committed inside the danger box

interesting, the 7 seconds were the only restriction and chipping the gk and shot fakes would have been allowed? gotta test that next time we're playing on a pitch with big goals, i'm intrigued...