Soccer agate question

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I've seen it reported differently, so I figured I'd check with the masses.

If a player scores an own goal, how is it listed in the box score?

I believe it's listed as "Team A (own goal)" or some such variation, but I've seen it done like hockey, where the player closest to the ball or the last player to touch it from the "scoring" team is credited. That sounds incorrect to me.

What do you all do?

 

It's soccer. Enough said.

 

Just list it as "own goal" in the agate. The hockey rule (last player on the scoring team to touch the puck gets credit) does not apply in soccer. In the pro ranks, the stat sheet will list the name of the player who put the ball in his own net, but there's no benefit to doing that at the prep level.

 

Here's how our box score would look.

PODUNK HIGH 3, BEARDSLEY PREP 1

Beardsly Prep 1 0 - 1
Podunk 2 1 - 3

Goals - Wilberforce (BP); Williams, Stephens, own goal (P). etc....

 

I think I know what Pern is talking about, because I was at the game in question.
In this case, it wasn't really an own goal, merely a kicked ball that deflected off a defensive player. An own goal implies a defender tried to clear or pass the ball to his keeper, then booted it in.

 

Different game, Rhody. Player headed the ball into his own goal.

 

I (along with soccer readers) like to write a soccer box like a football box.

Thus:

Beardsly Prep 1 0 - 1
Podunk 2 1 - 3
First Half
Pod -- Williams (assist), 3:45.
BP -- Wilberforce (unassisted), 18:20.
Pod -- Stephens (Smith), 37:21.
Second Half
Pod -- Podunk (own goal), 55:01.

Goalkeepers -- Podunk, Jones (6 saves); Beardsly Prep, Osborne (3 saves). ...

 

Those Beardsly Prep chaps are a bunch of plonkers.

 

Fixed

I doubt you would need to put Podunk twice there.

 

We like this format:


Podunk, Preppyville

Po (1-12-2) 0 1 -- 1
Pr (12-1-1) 1 1 -- 2
Scoring -- 1 Pr, Doc (BBAM) 12:35; 2 Po, IJAG (Pastor) 46:12; 3 Pr, Flash (Chickie) 77:45.
Shots on goal -- Po 4, Pr 5; Corner kicks -- Po 3, Pr 2; Fouls -- Po 23, Pr 27; Offside -- Po 1, Pr 1; Saves -- Po 3, Pr 3.
Goalkeepers -- Po, Rhody; Pr, BBAM.

 

FIFA's match report from the USA-Brazil semifinal...
http://fifa.com/womenworldcup/matches/round=2000001014/match=56334/report.html

 

I have always seen it as the player's name with own goal in brackets.