{"id":153095,"date":"2022-12-09T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/curse-of-the-eighth-penalty-world-cup-shootouts-by-numbers-world-cup-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:12:00","slug":"curse-of-the-eighth-penalty-world-cup-shootouts-by-numbers-world-cup-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/curse-of-the-eighth-penalty-world-cup-shootouts-by-numbers-world-cup-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Curse of the eighth penalty: World Cup shootouts by numbers | World Cup 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
A<\/span><\/span>ccording to Maxime Bossis, it was an error that would never have been made these days. \u201cNo one told me he always dived on the same side. It was another world,\u201d said the former France defender in an interview in July. \u201cToday a coach or a player would have come to tell me: ‘Watch out, he always dives to his right!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n It is more than 40 years since Bossis entered the history books as the first player whose miss in a World Cup penalty shootout led \u2013 via an opponent’s successful spot-kick \u2013 to his country’s elimination. Introduced by Fifa for the 1982 tournament in Spain to replace the policy of replaying a drawn game, the first took place in Seville and saw \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 West Germany emerge victorious against France.<\/p>\n \u201cThe coach gathered us around and asked: ‘Who wants to take one?’\u201d remembered Alain Giresse, who succeeded with the first penalty in a World Cup shootout. \u201cPlayers were already taking off their boots and saying: ‘Not me!’\u201d<\/p>\n