“The penalty shootout is the monster under soccer’s bed. There are good reasons for this. Well, there are reasons, anyway, and they grow knotted and blighted from the nature of the penalty kick itself. The sport we quaint Old Worlders call American football is one of micro-management. An American football game is divided into dozens of short bursts of activity – a huddle in which a play is called, followed by the play in action, followed by another huddle, and so forth. This sequence of packets of time facilitates discipline and intra-team order. Each play call is a precise, unyielding instruction. Executive power thus largely resides in the coach making the call rather than in the foot soldier.” (Norman Einstein’s), (Must Read Soccer)