Inside the mind of the Penalty taker: Can Psychology explain why England fails in soccer penalty shootouts?
Dr Raj Persaud
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Posted 25.08.2012
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UK
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Roy Hodgson the England Football manager was reported by the Daily Telegraph newspaper to be cursing the 'psychological block' suffered by his team when facing penalty shootouts, lamenting that practising hadn't helped. But perhaps Hodgson and his team are in fact unaware of the latest scientific research on the psychology of how to take a penalty?
