The winner takes it all – UEFA U17s to trial ABBA shoot-out system
By Andrew Warshaw
May 4 – Two months after football’s lawmakers gave the green light to experiment with a new tennis-style penalty shootout system, UEFA are employing it at the European under-17 championship, which began in Croatia today.
Known as ABBA, the system is designed to prevent the team that shoots second from being put at a psychological disadvantage.
In March at the IFAB annual meeting reporters were told that 60% of penalty shootouts were won by the team that takes the first kick.
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