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Increasing Penalty Kick Success Rates

1. The document presents a five-step behavioral method for successfully scoring a penalty kick. The method aims to increase the chances of scoring by focusing on ball placement, ignoring distractions, running purposefully at the ball, taking a decisive shot, and aiming for the corners of the net. 2. Under the assumptions that the goalkeeper cannot move until kick and must stay on the goal line, the penalty taker has advantages. However, scoring is not guaranteed. 3. The five steps are: ensuring proper ball placement; concentrating only on the kick; running purposefully; taking a clean, decisive shot without changing aim; and knowing to aim for the corners of the net outside the goalkeeper's reach

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Increasing Penalty Kick Success Rates

1. The document presents a five-step behavioral method for successfully scoring a penalty kick. The method aims to increase the chances of scoring by focusing on ball placement, ignoring distractions, running purposefully at the ball, taking a decisive shot, and aiming for the corners of the net. 2. Under the assumptions that the goalkeeper cannot move until kick and must stay on the goal line, the penalty taker has advantages. However, scoring is not guaranteed. 3. The five steps are: ensuring proper ball placement; concentrating only on the kick; running purposefully; taking a clean, decisive shot without changing aim; and knowing to aim for the corners of the net outside the goalkeeper's reach

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TOWARDS A SUCCESSFUL PENALTY-KICK: A

BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH

Edson Arantes Do Nascimento


Dept. of Football Dynamics - University of Sports
E-mail: pelè@soccer.edu

1 INTRODUCTION

As with the other tactics, the penalty kick need methodical and constant training, perhaps
even more than the rest if we take into consideration the fact that a penalty kick is often the
crucial shot which decides a game. The existence of the penalty kick depends of a sets of
random and mutual conflicting events that have to occur before, during and after the ball
kicking. As you are kicking a stationary ball, the amount of improvisation is lessened.
The aim of this work is to present a unified methodology to support penalty kick success. The
framework constituted of at least five steps.

2 METHODOLOGY

During a penalty kick the player who takes the penalty has all the advantages. The method is
based on the following assumptions:
– the goalkeeper is not allowed to move his feet until the ball has been kicked;
– there are only eleven meters between the penalty spot and the goal;
– the shot is a direct one and the opponents must be 9.15 meters away from the ball.
Under these assumptions the goalkeeper is in the position of a victim with scarcely any
defence.
This does not mean that the player will definitely score.

2.1 The proposed approach: five-steps method


To increase the chances of scoring, the player should observe the following behavioural
model:
1. Make sure the ball is placed right on the penalty spot. Any hole or little obstacle,
sometimes made by the goalkeeper, can cause the ball to go off course.
2. Player have to leave the ball on the spot and concentrate on what he is going to do. He have
not listen to any of the defenders' talk, or pay any attention to their movements, which could
distract him. He must forget everyone and everything except the penalty kick.
3. Player have to run purposefully at the ball. By now he should has already decided which
corner of the net he is going to aim at (pre-kick approach).
4. Player’s shot should be a decisive, 'clean' one. He have not to change his mind about the
direction of the ball at this stage. Player have to take no notice of the movements of the
goalkeeper's arms or body and he have to ignore any shout from a defender. These are their
ways of trying to distract player.
5. Player must know his target, which is the area directly inside each post. The goalkeeper
will be in the middle, ready to cover about 4 meters. That leaves about 1.5 meters on either
side. The goalkeeper cannot defend these spaces. Player only has to place the ball correctly in
this zone and the goal is achieved (Fig. 1).

Figure 1. The five-steps method representation

2.1.1 Recommendations
The method described above has been successfully validated under the additional assumption
that the goal-keeper is not a dope-user.
The formula of dopamine is reported below:
formula of dopamine (15)

3 CONCLUSIONS

This isn't really as easy as it seems. It all depends on the confidence player has gained from
training.
Don't forget that a miss (if it goes outside the net, or is saved) is the penalty taker's fault!
When player practices your free kicks from various angles in front of the area and your
penalty kicks you are increasing your team's chances of victory.

REFERENCES

Maradona D.A. (1992). A General approach to successfully score by the hands. Int. Journal. of
Football Simulation, 29B, pp. 231-242

Zoff D. (1982). How save penalty-kick. FIGC Publisher. Rome, Italy

Platini M. (1998). The art of the free-kick. Proc. of the 20th World Conference on Football Research,
Paris, 10 June 1998. France

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