#58 Where did the penalty kick rule come from?
Soccer 101
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🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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On this episode of Soccer 101, Joe digs into the penalty kick rule. Where did it come from? When did it originate? And who invented it? All that, and more, on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a big moment. |
| 0:13.9 | You know it. |
| 0:15.4 | That one friend of yours who doesn't actually care about soccer, |
| 0:18.1 | but you somehow convinced them to watch this game with you anyway. |
| 0:21.2 | Yeah, that person knows it too. |
| 0:24.1 | The referee just blew their whistle moments ago, and despite angry yelling from a slew of defenders, |
| 0:29.9 | the ref has gone ahead and put the ball down on the spot and cleared the box of everyone |
| 0:34.3 | except the taker and the opposing goalkeeper. |
| 0:39.4 | It's time for a penalty kick. |
| 0:46.1 | Penalty kicks are almost impressively divisive, but like it or not, they are a big part of soccer. |
| 0:51.6 | When an offensive player is fouled in the box or the referee spots a handball, we all know what comes next. A penalty, probably taken by Cristiano Ronaldo, even if |
| 0:55.9 | his team isn't playing. Penalty kicks are normal, but that hasn't always been the case. There was a |
| 1:02.1 | time, a long, long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, when the penalty kick didn't exist. Gasp, |
| 1:09.6 | you mean there was a time when strikers couldn't pad their goal scoring stats? |
| 1:13.1 | I know, it's crazy, right? |
| 1:14.7 | My name is Joe Lowry and welcome everyone to this episode of Soccer 101. |
| 1:20.2 | Today, we're here to talk about penalty kicks. |
| 1:23.0 | More specifically, we're here to talk about the origin of the penalty kick. |
| 1:27.1 | To do so, we're going to |
| 1:28.2 | take a journey back in time and across the Atlantic Ocean. So buckle up everybody. Let's do this |
| 1:34.2 | thing. Our journey is designed to follow along with the actions of one man, William McCrum. |
| 1:41.4 | There are a few things that you need to know about William McCrum right here right now. |
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