Penalty kick (association football) | Wikipedia audio article

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00:00:52 1 Procedure
00:02:29 2 Infringements
00:03:41 3 Tap penalty
00:05:31 4 Saving tactics
00:05:40 4.1 "Reading" the kicker
00:07:08 4.2 Use of knowledge of kicker's history
00:08:46 4.3 Distraction
00:11:14 5 Scoring statistics
00:12:31 5.1 Saving statistics
00:13:02 6 History
00:13:11 6.1 Early proposals
00:13:53 6.2 Introduction of the penalty-kick
00:16:25 6.3 Subsequent developments
00:19:35 6.4 Summary
00:19:43 6.5 Offences for which a penalty kick was awarded



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SUMMARY
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A penalty kick (commonly known as a penalty or a PK) is a method of restarting play in association football, in which a player is allowed to take a single shot on the goal while it is defended only by the opposing team's goalkeeper. It is awarded when a foul punishable by a direct free kick is committed by a player in their own penalty area. The shot is taken from the penalty mark, which is 12 yards (11 m) from the goal line and centred between the touch lines.
In practice, penalty kicks result in goals more often than not, even against the best and most experienced goalkeepers. This means that penalty awards are game-changing decisions and often decisive, particularly in low-scoring games.
Similar kicks are made in a penalty shootout in some tournaments to determine which team is victorious after a drawn match; these are governed by slightly different rules.