Category: Football

This is one of the strongest stereotypes in world sports: England’s national football team performed poorly on penalty kicks. This old-fashioned stereotype always seems to be most obvious when England is in the playoffs of the international championships, when England faces its historic opponent Germany. … This confrontation included two distressing penalty shootouts. With the […]

In the European Cup playoffs, some games are likely to be decided by penalty kicks. There has been a lot of discussion about whether the order of the team’s free throws will affect the outcome of the game. As Matthias Sutter of the Collective Commodity Institute discovered. Max Planck in Bonn and three colleagues in […]