Last Friday saw the final of the Saudi Crown Prince Cup Saudi Arabia's equivalent of the the FA Cup being played between bitter rivals Al Hilal and Al Nasr. The match went to penalties, at which point Al Nasr goalkeeper Abdallah Al Enizi decided to unleash just about any form of gamesmanship that [..
Fans who sat through a drab opening 45 minutes in last night's Premier League match between Liverpool and West Brom were at least treated to some entertainment at half-time. As part of a one-off shirt sponsorship with Seeing Is Believing, a charity that aims to tackle avoidable likeness, there was a blindfolded penalty shootout during [.
Prince William proved he's the perfect FA president by losing a penalty shootout to a 13-year-old lad in the Solomon Islands. The young goalkeeper challenged Britain's second-in-line to the throne to beat him from the spot... and William responded as only an Englishman on foreign soil can: with a series of misses.
Udinese crashed out of the Champions League in last night's play-off against Braga. And it's hardly
surprising once you consider the content of this post. In normal time, Pablo Armero went through on
goal and had a great chance to give the Italian side a 3-2 lead on aggregate. Instead he unleashed
a wicked air-shot, [.
In what was a generally drab on-field affair the Sporting Wiz kids outlasted the three-time
defending U.S. Open Cup champs in the penalty shootout. There was a nice pregame rainbow that
reminded us of a simpler time in these United States of soccer. Seattle brought a sizable (big
enough to fill an end, that is) contingent of away supporters in addition to Ozzie Alonso.
Hurrah! A trophy for Arsenal finally. Gervinho's equalizer against the Saints was enough for the
Gunners to get their hands on the Markus Leibherr trophy even as they lost the penalty shootout
because they had already won against Anderlecht, 1-0 on Henri Lansbury's goal. It was a very young
Gunners squad with only Kieran Gibbs, the captain keeping company with Marouane Chamakh and Carl
Jenkinson from the first team.
Down two goals on aggregate, the Tampa Bay Rowdies were in need of a big performance in order to pull themselves back into the NASL Championship Series.
They got just that and more en route to pulling off a dramatic and entertaining penalty shootout victory that gave them their first NASL title.
Al Wasl did not reap the benefits as expected under Diego Maradona's tutelage. The Saudi Arabian
club finished eighth in a 12 team league and the final straw was when Al Muharaq, a Bahraini club
beat Al Wasl on penalties after both clubs tied on aggregate over both legs of a local
tournament.
Orlando City entered the playoffs as the heavy favorites to claim the USL Pro championship. They
had done so in 2011 and ramsacked through the regular season this year en route to securing
homefield advantage throught the postseason.
For their third Olympics in a row and fourth time overall, the United States Women's National
Team stood at the center podium, and had gold be put around their necks. Even sweeter was the
victory, which came at the expense of Japan, who stole the 2011 World Cup in a heartbreaking
penalty shootout last summer.
Playing in front of his home fans, with a place in the UEFA Champions League group stage on the
line during a tense penalty shootout Tuesday, Udinese's Maicosuel stepped to the spot and tried to
catch Sporting Braga goalkeeper Beto off guard with a Panenka, a chip down the center along the
likes of what Andrea Pirlo so fearlessly did against England during Euro 2012.
While in Los Angeles, the Real Madrid superstar sat down with ESPN's Frank Leboeuf to talk about
'that' penalty shootout against Spain at Euro 2012 as well as his candidacy for this year's Ballon
D'Or. Here are some of the excerpts from that interview:
Spain won their third major tournament in a row with an impressive 4-0 result over Italy in the
UEFA Euro 2012 final. It was a dominating performance from start to finish with Italy rarely having
a realistic chance to lift the trophy.
Opposite of the Portugal match, Spain started the final very quickly and had a 1-0 lead by the
14th minute.
Maybe watching over 30 games of football in the last three weeks has left us a little frazzled
between the ears, but we worked under the assumption that there was a fixed order of penalty takers
to keep to in a shootout scenario. Apparently not so according to former-Premier League referee
Graham Poll.
Osvaldo Alonso's lasting memory of the 2012 U.S. Open Cup may not be a great one, but he can at
least take solace in being named the "Player of the Tournament" by theCup.US. Alonso was one of
three Seattle Sounders players not to convert his attempt in the decisive penalty shootout, but he
was undeniably a major reason they were even there to begin with.
It has been a really, really bad week. And that's just Jeremiah's personal travails. The Seattle
Sounders didn't have it so hot either.
Coming off the feel-good win of the year, the Sounders had their hearts ripped out by losing to
Sporting KC in a penalty-shootout in the U.S. Open Cup final -- a game that included several
dubious decisions by referee Ricardo Salazar.
That was certainly not how the Seattle Sounders imagined this week going. Losing to both
Sporting Kansas City and the San Jose Earthquakes would have been bad enough, but doing it in the
way they did makes it almost unfathomable.
The more depressing loss was the penalty shootout on Wednesday, but the way the Sounders lost
2-1 on Saturday was just pouring salt on the wound.
On Wednesday night, Sporting KC defeated the Seattle Sounders in a penalty shootout to win the
US Open Cup. The championship was the first piece of silverware for the organization since last
winning the USOC in 2004.
With the USOC behind them, the club now aspires to add an MLS Cup Championship and CONCACAF
Champions League trophy to their collection.
Obviously, that was not the way the Seattle Sounders thought this run of U.S. Open Cup success
was going to end. They didn't think it, probably, because it's the kind of nightmare ending you
never want to imagine. A hard-fought game comes down to a penalty shootout, which is then at least
partially decided by a questionable referee decision.
If ending a season on a penalty shootout loss is tough to swallow, the UConn Huskies were surely
more than demoralized last year. After all, their penalty kick defeat to Charlotte in the
quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament marked the third straight season in which UConn had their
hopes of winning a national championship dashed in such a manner.
Chelsea suffered a first defeat of pre-season on Wednesday night in Philadelphia, thanks to an
injury time winner for the MLS.
Eddie Johnson was the hero with the winning goal in the 91st minute with Chris Wondolowski and
Chris Pontius also scoring for the all-stars, and John Terry and Frank Lampard scoring for
Chelsea.
To say Sporting Kansas City had a good week doesn't do justice to what a special week it was for
the fans of the team formerly known as the Kansas City Wizards.
First, Sporting KC won the club's first trophy in eight years with a dramatic penalty shootout
victory in the U.
Tour 2012 continued yesterday evening with undoubtedly the toughest opposition in the form of FC
Barcelona. The clash took place on home ground for neither, in the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg.
Why? Not sure, but it's apparently the biggest stadium in Scandinavia. Also unsure what to take
from this one following another 0-0 draw.
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Tuesday night was a good nigh for Major League Soccer three MLS sides were unbeaten against
their Premier League opponents. The Colorado Rapids beat Swansea City 201, while the LA Galaxy and
Spurs tied 1-1 and the Portland Timbers and Aston Villa tied 1-1.
In Colorado both teams wore black armbands and Swans captain Garry Monk placed a wreath at
the halfway line as the stadium stood in a moment of silence paying tribute to the lives that were
taken at the Aurora theater shooting last week.
Robbie Keane's former team and current team battled to a stalemate.
David Junior Lopes cancelled out Gareth Bale's goal to give the Los Angeles Galaxy a 1-1 draw
with Tottenham at the Home Depot Center in a meeting that touched on a couple of career stops for
Keane, the only one of the Galaxy's three Designated Players to feature in the match.
Exactly two years ago on July 16, 2010, the Chicago Fire U16s won the U.S. Soccer Development
Academy U15/16 Championship. In doing so, the Fire became the first academy team from a MLS club to
capture a USSDA championship. The Fire U16s of this year were not favored to follow in the
footsteps of the U16s of 2010 but they have made it to finals week.
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Like England, Great Britain disappointingly failed to advance past the quarterfinals of a major
international tournament on Saturday. And like England, they were eliminated on penalty kicks.
Great Britain felt the pain England have been feeling for so many decades, as they suffered a
5-4 penalty shootout loss to South Korea in the Olympic quarterfinals at Millennium Stadium.
Sometimes, this part of the report is written before a match in a vain attempt to build towards
some kind of atmosphere, as someone who's reliving the "match-day experience" or whatever that
could possibly mean in MLS(E) land. But tonight, there will be no pre-match set-up beyond the
following : Toronto mediocre, everyone else better, wonder how the hell a team six seasons on is
still this crap.
