In football, you need 90 minutes of focus. Practically everyone knows that... Except Cienciano coach Horacio Melgarejo.With the aggregate score tied at 2-2 against Montevideo City Torque in the Copa S ...

The goal looks so large. The keeper looks so small. For a professional soccer player to get the ball past the opponent and into the target seems not so terribly challenging. Until there is the element ...

Lionel Messi is arguably the greatest soccer scorer of all time. But when it comes to penalty kicks, Messi is merely average. Why? Maybe the answer involves game theory. According to game theory, ...

Penalty kicks are already proving critical to big wins at this year’s World Cup. But the advantage in penalty kicks has more to do with psychological effects than who kicks first. In a World Cup, some ...

Few things are as divisive in the world of soccer as a stutter-step penalty. The routine subverts all conceptions of what it takes to make the net move. In a sport defined by technique, the stop-start ...

While it seems like the easiest play in the sport, it's anything but for those trying to score or prevent a goal.

Corinthians’ elimination by Estudiantes in the Libertadores, with a penalty missed by Memphis Depay in the 55th minute of the second half, caused a lot of reactions on social media, as expected.Jour..

For more than 20 years, Lionel Messi has been able to do anything he wants on a soccer pitch, bending the game to his will and conjuring otherworldly moves out of thin air. But there’s one skill that ...

The World Cup is in the lose-and-go-home stage of the tournament and the pressure keeps rising with every minute of every match. The biggest pressure cooker of them all: the penalty kick shootout.