🎥 TBT when MLS got creative with their penalty shoot-outs 🇺🇸

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Dan Burke·26 January 2020

🎥 TBT when MLS got creative with their penalty shoot-outs 🇺🇸

It’s one of football’s biggest clichés that penalty shoot-outs are a lottery.

In reality, you step up to the spot, take a shot and if you hit it well enough and/or the goalkeeper dives the wrong way, you score a goal. Simple as that.

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But what if it wasn’t so simple?

Back in the mid-1990s, Major League Soccer decided to do away with the traditional penalty shoot-out and devised their own format which saw the shooter having to dribble towards the goalkeeper from 35-yards out and take a shot within five seconds.

The results were remarkable …

We did things a little differently in 1996...👀
– Saturday, 25 January 2020

Please, please, please bring this back, not just to MLS but to every league in the world!