Article: Penalty Shoot-outs: How To Be Sure Of Scoring
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Penalty Shoot-outs: How To Be Sure Of Scoring
The cup final whistle blows. It?s one each. Extra time is played but nobody scores. The referee signals a penalty shoot-out. Now 5 men from each side have to step up and put the ball into the net just once.
It?s something they can do in their sleep but at least one of them is going to miss. How is it possible that hugely talented and highly-paid stars can miss the vital shot that will bring them glory?
This is a dilemma that men and women have experienced for centuries.
When writing about the pressures of winning an archery contest, the 3rd century BC Taoist writer Chuang-Tzu said that, when we focus on the prize and not the job, we lose the edge to our skill. He said: ?An archer shooting for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his skill unimpede...
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