Pressrelease: Cracking the Penalty Code

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In the year 2000, George Vergouw published his football-book De Strafschop (The Penalty) in the Netherlands. Based on his analysis, he predicted that players like Patrick 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 semifinals. Both predictions came true. He also suggested the goalkeeper switch just before the penalty shootout was due to start, a feat finally introduced 14 years later by Louis van Gaal. 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, Cracking the penalty Code, winning a shootout in football. The publication  i...

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