Soccer scoring question ....

If they were in goal, they must have been picking flowers or fiddling with their instruments or something. Holy crow.

 

Well...there could have been 20 rounds of kicks. You never know.

 

There better have been. Because it looks as if I could have gotten one past the keeper, and I haven't kicked a soccer ball since I was 8.

 

I saw a girl's hs varsity game go 18 pks until it was over. It wasn't all makes or misses, but the home team matched each time, before winning at the end. D***ned exciting. Loser missed the playoffs. And I have routinely seen playoff games go 7-8-9 kicks deep.

 

I don't think penalty kicks is the right term. Shouldn't it be called a shootout instead?

 

Depends on the format used. In Texas, hs games are decided by a shootout, in which the shooter gets the ball 35 yards out and has 5 seconds to get off a shot.

Under FIFA (and college) rules, if a tie has to be broken, they use the standard penalty kicks, although they're called "kicks from the mark" because nobody was penalized.

Under High School Federation rules, the score is usually reported as Team Kickers 2, Team Other 1 (SO), to show that it was decided by tiebreaking format. And it's a win, not a tie. But HS and college rules are not FIFA rules, thus the confusion.

On a related note, when two halves of overtime are played, we often have to remind writers and editors that it's not double overtime. HS and college use that format also.

 

I think in high school - at least the state I live in - a shootout winner is given the deciding goal, so if the shootout is won 4-3 after a 1-1 tie, the official score is recorded at 2-1, PKs.

In college, pro, etc., I believe the score is officially recorded as a tie.

 

When a soccer game is played, there is no winner.

 

It's tough to argue with that.

 

fixed.