Re: Not Worthy of a Thread Mk. II

by nasir6371 Wed Jul 30, 2014 2:40 am

So who will leave Diego or Iker? or will all three fight for a spot Laughing

by Robespierre Wed Jul 30, 2014 11:37 pm

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Inter took a picture with this ESPN journalist woman ( Britt McHenry ) . Icardi seemed interested to her Laughing

and then this journalist passed the ball with Nemanja Vidic

http://instagram.com/p/rFqPOsSKIK/

Nothing bad !! Still better than Kuzmanovic imho

by Lord Spencer Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:26 pm

Zanetti

by Onyx Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:18 pm

Looks a bit like Sable from WWF. hmm

by Onyx Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:52 pm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bt5bZAwIQAA00hK.jpg

by Mr Nick09 Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:11 pm

by Robespierre Thu Jul 31, 2014 11:19 pm

Modric on Instagram Proud

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Spoiler:

by Robespierre Fri Aug 01, 2014 12:01 am

Ashley Cole.

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And he is retweeting the photomontages about it rofl

https://twitter.com/TheRealAC3

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by RedOranje Fri Aug 01, 2014 4:06 am

Goalkeepers deceive themselves when facing penalty kicks
Soccer’s netminders fall victim to fallacy during high-pressure situation
BY NSIKAN AKPAN 12:31PM, JULY 31, 2014

Soccer goalkeepers routinely dive the wrong way because their minds presume trends that don’t exist, University College London scientists report July 31 in Current Biology.

During penalty kick shootouts, each team has five chances to score from 12 yards away from the goal with only the goalie protecting the net. Professional penalty kicks travel up to 80 miles per hour, giving goalkeepers less than half a second to react.

To make saves, many goalkeepers begin diving before the ball is hit, says coauthor Erman Misirlisoy, a cognitive neuroscientist.

But their guesswork might be flawed,Misirlisoy and cognitive neuroscientist Patrick Haggard found after watching videos of 361 penalty kicks from the last 36 years of the World Cup and the European Cup. When multiple kickers in a row shot toward the same side, goalkeepers often dove in the opposite direction on the next kick. The kickers’ behavior, meanwhile, lacked any predictable pattern.

“We cannot help but feel that independent events throughout life are somehow related to each other,” Misirlisoy says. “This can lead to the gambler’s fallacy,” a tendency to doubt a trend in one direction will continue, even if the odds of each direction are 50-50. An example of the fallacy occurs when a pregnant mother of three boys predicts her next child will be a girl.

Kickers could exploit this fallacy in future tournaments, Misirlisoy says.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/goalkeepers-deceive-themselves-when-facing-penalty-kicks

by Donuts Fri Aug 01, 2014 7:21 am

not every keeper just throws themselves wherever..
Many of them have openly said they have this sick habit of studying the other teams best players penalty kicks and try to just dive towards the players most comfort zone..
Iker saved that penalty against paraguay because Pepe Reina knew the kicker well and just told iker the guys usual save zone.

I'm sure scouts and many of the player themselves watch these

by Onyx Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:24 am

New Messi boots:

Spoiler:

by rwo power Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:46 am

You only need to remember the famous notepaper Jens Lehmann got before the penalty shootout against Argentina in the World Cup 2006.

The DFB works together with the Sporthochschule Köln and collects data about all teams they face and their players, so you can be sure that at least for the German NT, every opponent penalty shooter is already analysed to the last bit.

Oh, and by the way, Professor Daniel Memmert who leads the Institute of Cognitive and Team/Racket Sport Research of the German Sports University Cologne analysed a good hundred studies about penalties and penalty shootouts, and his results were a bit different than the results posted above.

More info (albeit in German, sorry): http://www.noz.de/deutschland-welt/sport/artikel/486982/elfmeterschiessen-tricks-und-statistik-theorie-und-praxis