Sepp Blatter to scrap penalty shoot-outs

Date: 27-05-2012 7:02 pm (12 years ago) | Author: AYOOLA ADEBAYO
- at 27-05-2012 07:02 PM (12 years ago)
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter is in favour of scrapping penalty shoot-outs in favour of finding an alternative way to settle drawn matches.

Blatter made his remarks to delegates at the FIFA Congress less than a week after Chelsea beat Bayern Munich on spot-kicks to win the Champions League.

He said: "Football can be a tragedy when you go to penalty kicks. Football is a team game, when it goes to one against one football loses its essence. "Perhaps Franz

Beckenbauer, with his Football 2014 group, can show us a solution, perhaps not today but in the future."

Beckenbauer — who won the World Cup with Germany as both a player and manager was among the delegates at the congress — was not immediately available for comment but his views are well known on the matter.

The German legend has said he would rather have penalties than either a golden or silver goal which were used briefly to determine matches.

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