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Football experts keep preaching that
practicing penalty kicks is a waste of time. Cracking the Penalty Code offers a groundbreaking approach to finally win shootouts at major tournaments.

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Football experts in England and the Netherlands keep preaching that
practicing penalty kicks is a waste of time. To them, shootouts are
nothing more than a ‘lottery’. Be that as it may, winning a World Cup
or European Championship has become almost impossible without
surviving at least one penalty shootout. There is compelling evidence
that teams perform significantly better when they practice correctly.

Vergouw offers a groundbreaking new approach to solving important
questions surrounding the penalty shootout. He believes The Three
Lions will benefit from this publication and he hopes they win their
first trophy since 1966. It goes without saying, after taking perfect
penalties.

George Vergouw was the first author to publish a book on big data in
football in his internationally acclaimed book De Strafschop. He wrote
Cracking the Penalty Code especially for English and Dutch football
professionals and fans.

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Football experts in England and the Netherlands keep preaching that
practicing penalty kicks is a waste of time. To them, shootouts are
nothing more than a ‘lottery’. Be that as it may, winning a World Cup
or European Championship has become almost impossible without
surviving at least one penalty shootout. There is compelling evidence
that teams perform significantly better when they practice correctly.

Vergouw offers a groundbreaking new approach to solving important
questions surrounding the penalty shootout. He believes The Three
Lions will benefit from this publication and he hopes they win their
first trophy since 1966. It goes without saying, after taking perfect
penalties.

George Vergouw was the first author to publish a book on big data in
football in his internationally acclaimed book De Strafschop. He wrote
Cracking the Penalty Code especially for English and Dutch football
professionals and fans.

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More than twenty years after his controversial book De Strafschop, George Vergouw (known in the Netherlands as Gyuri Vergouw and 'Professor Penalty', has released a completely new English-language penalty book, aimed at Dutch and English fans and football professionals. Not just figures and analyses, but above all a book about the background of the penalty kick and personal experiences (and collisions) with football professionals. What can we do together, players, coaches, press and fans, to stop the cycle of losing shootouts?

Author Vergouw has given hundreds of interviews about the trainability of penalties. In his new book, Vergouw compares the football culture of England and the Netherlands with that of Germany, the Czech Republic and Argentina, countries that are good at taking penalties. The book answers many questions, including:

Why do people think, especially in England and the Netherlands, that the penalty cannot be trained? And why does this thought alone leads to missing penalties?
Where does the idea of goalkeeper change just before a shootout actually come from?
Is Messi or Ronaldo the better penalty taker?
Are women better penalty takers than men?
When is a penalty shootout a lottery, and when definitely not?
How can you deal with stress related to a penalty?

These and many other questions regarding the penalty shootout are answered in Cracking the Penalty Code.

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