The science of penalty shootouts: How teams are using data to win
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Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos says if he were interested in individual awards, he would've played tennis.
The most important few minutes of Gianluigi Buffon's career were the penalties that decided the Italy-France World Cup final in 2006. Going into the shootout, the Italian keeper didn't feel confident. "I was not in tune with what was happening. It seemed to me that France could have taken 2000 penalties and scored all of them."
Buffon wasn't the kind of keeper who prepared for shootouts by studying opposition kickers. Instead he relied on intuition. But then his Juventus teammate David Trezeguet...