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If the guy has to start on the middle of the goal line and people said they were going top shelf left or right, there is no chance to even get a hand on the ball if you kick it there with any pace (assuming the guy doesn't move two seconds early).
One thing we used to practice on penalty kicks was our coach got to the point where he only counted PK goals in practice that hit a post/crossbar and went in. I think the best I had was 4 out of 10. But this was when I was playing on 3-4 teams and was going to summer soccer camps and clinics every summer.
Two points:
teams rarely practice it since it only comes up in tournament settings that you need multiple takers.
I get that. But the requirement would be that would have to be his starting point (because in reality that's where they all start from). Clearly a keeper would have an advantage knowing where the shot is going, but even knowing where isn't enough on properly positioned shots.
don't forget to bring a 6'5'' keeper with a wing span of Rodan with you
My son is 6'5" with almost a 7' wingspan. So I've already got that part covered.don't forget to bring a 6'5'' keeper with a wing span of Rodan with you
The goal looks a whole lot bigger with out that component.
To be fair, I imagine the shortest goal keeper in the World Cup towers over Pacquaio.
The last time I truly tried to kick a soccer ball hard I tore a muscle in my hip. You are in your 50’s - you don’t kick the ball as hard as you think and you definitely don’t do it accurately. I’d guess 0 or 1 if I got lucky and hit it pure and away from the keeper.James Daulton said:
At pace is a completely different ballgame.
I make all 10 kicking the ball completely straight.Tom Servo said:Danny Kannell (I know, but bear with me here) said he could easily make 3 of 10 PKs against a goalie.
Now, some commenters added that you would be doing this after 120 minutes of running. I didn’t get that from his comment, but I’ll ask this way:
1. 10 penalty kicks against a World Cup goalie.
2. Full crowd of however many thousand people.
3. Both of you are fully rested and ready to go.
Questions:
1. How many do you make?
2. How would a punter or FG kicker do? Better or worse than a retired QB?
I was thinking about that one too. I can put the ball into the left side-netting (if you're looking at the net from the spot) with relative frequency. But I can't place it into the right side-netting with power with any real consistency. It's not going to take long for a top GK to figure out where I'm trying to go every time.
Your definition of top corner is much smaller than I would put it at. I was thinking the size of what a goalie can't get to, which is a good bit larger. At that size in my prime maybe a couple with lots of variance.
Watch this from about 3:07 - includes a professional soccer player - 0/10 combined
Hitting top corner is really hard. Nobody on this board is hitting 8/10.
ETA - I am probably top-5 in actual experience, and in the top 2 or 3 in taking actual PKs. In my prime, I could not hit 8/10 top corners - the margin for error is so much smaller than people realize.
Yeah going top corner seems incredibly dumb for most if not all of us. Would assume the play would be low and hard* to a post with something off the inside of our foot.
Watch this from about 3:07 - includes a professional soccer player - 0/10 combined
Hitting top corner is really hard. Nobody on this board is hitting 8/10.
ETA - I am probably top-5 in actual experience, and in the top 2 or 3 in taking actual PKs. In my prime, I could not hit 8/10 top corners - the margin for error is so much smaller than people realize.
Wow. Interesting. I guess not too far off from what I thought but I did initially think somebody of still reasonable athletic ability that played for several years could get at least one by (likely struck just hard enough and just inside one of the posts).
Brony said:
In the video above, people literally off the street went 2/10, and another guy just missed with one hard off the crossbar.
the keeper was not even trying as others in the thread have mentioned. This is what it looks like when he tries
I agree he wasn't giving it full effort, but the whole point of shooting the video was to see if random people could score on him, and pretty much any athlete is going to not want to look bad in that kind of situation, so he wasn't half assing it either.
the point of the video was a very light hearted way to create a little marketing for the new team. Nothing more than that.
Perhaps, but either way the guy that put one off the crossbar illustrated pretty well that a guy off the street has a puncher's chance of putting one in the net.
I could cut a wrestling promo with Bobby Heenan and Jim Cornette.We should start a thread where the question is "what could you be as good as a top pro in, with only one week of practice?" Doesn't even have to be sport. We could do music, cooking, what ever.
I am going to guess acting in porn won't be high on the list
He's a midget. I'd just keep him away from me with my reach.
I'm not arguing that they aren't. This particular aspect of their job is designed for the keeper to lose and to lose big.
for you in goal, me at the spot in 2026 in SoCal 
