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Goalkeepers dive right when pressure's on

New research by psychologists at the University of Amsterdam suggests that goalkeepers are biased to dive to the right during penalty-kick shootouts.

The study found that during penalty shootouts, goalies will dive to the right side 71 percent of the time when their team is down, but not when they're tied or ahead.

Read the full article at MIKE JACOBS.

MIKE JACOBS @ Aug 3, 2011 4:04 PM EDT | Blog Profile

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