Pressrelease: Cracking the Penalty Code

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In the year 2000, George Vergouw published his footballbook De Strafschop (The Penalty) in the Netherlands. Based on his analysis, he predicted that players like Kluivert and Frank de Boer would miss their penalties and that the Dutch would be eliminated from the championship losing a shootout in the quarter of semi-finals. Both predictions came true. He also suggested the goalkeeper switch just before the penalty shootout was due to start. His now classic big data football book was ahead of its time, published three years before the data breakthrough book Moneyball.

Vergouw now publishes a new penalty book, fully dedicated to the shootout. The publication  is aimed at both Dutch and especially English fans and football professionals. Above all it is a book about the background of th...

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