Suppose a player misses a kick during a football (soccer) penalty shootout and then takes out his frustration by physically assaulting the referee or the opposing goalkeeper.
This would, no doubt, lead to a red-card ejection, but at this stage, does that amount to any meaningful punishment? His team would simply continue the shootout with its 10 remaining players and cycle through them as long as necessary. This isn’t like a red card in regulation time, where playing down 1 man against an opponent with all 11 players is a significant disadvantage.
The referee could declare the offending player’s kick to be no good - but he already missed it.
Would the referee award the opposing team an “extra” penalty kick?
Red Cards can build up during a competition and can lead to bans from playing, so even if the player got a red card for something less than assault (a second yellow for dissent, perhaps), it’d still go on the record.
Red cards, or two/three yellow ones (in separate games), lead to a one game ban in many tournaments, international and national.
Serious offences are punished by fines and longer bans, and of course physical attacks outside of the realm of the game (and sometimes within) are a criminal offence.
Thanks, but I’m asking about the penalty with regards to the impact on that game/shootout itself. The fines/bans have no bearing on the shootout-in-progress.
There are no other disadvantages other than the offending team loses a player. The non-offending team will need to remove one player from their pool of eligible players as well. The teams must have an equal number of eligible players for kicks from the mark.
Suffering no real detriment when smacking an official at the end of a match is not unique to soccer.
Then the answer is there’s nothing a referee can do in such a situation during the shoot out except award a yellow or red card.
It’s not like yellow and red cards have the same effect if awarded in the first five minutes as they have in the last five either, which is why players are more willing to risk a yellow in the last part of a match if they really need a win. (Well that and exhaustion induced stupidity.)
I always wondered why poor penalty takers don’t get themselves red carded immediately after extra time, in the Final of the World Cup, Champion’s League, etc. This would leave only the better penalty takers to shoot.
As I understand it, there’s very little difference between penalty takers at that elite level. And the odds always favor the shooter rather than the keeper. And even guys like Messi and Sneijder have missed PKs before.
I don’t know what the rules are, but it would be pretty serious if a player injured the opposing goalkeeper so that the goalie couldn’t continue.
Here’s an example of a ‘serious misunderstanding’ that was resolved in a sporting way.
Note that if a player is seriously injured, his team can kick the ball out of play so that player can receive treatment. When the opposing team later take the throw-in, they are supposed to sportingly give the ball back. In this case, the team went on to score. :smack:
I have seen PK shootouts go to the 7th and 8th rounds, and some of these guys have that deer-in-headlight look. While I agree it becomes a total crap shoot, I still think you’d want the Messis and Sneijders in there rather than the CB’s and GK’s. I know that some CB’s and GK’s are excellent PK takers, but obviously you would only eliminate the bad ones.