[Penalty shootout, start in the World Cup or the European Cup]
In the early morning of July 6, 2024, in the second game of the quarterfinals of the European Cup, Portugal faced the "Gallic Rooster" French team, and Ronaldo had a dialogue with Mbappe at the stadium. After 120 minutes of fierce battle, both sides failed to pry each other's goals open after the whole extra time, and as a result, France eliminated Portugal 5-3 through a penalty shoot-out and finally advanced to the semi-finals.
Penalties that are both exciting and lucky, the full name is called penalty kicks, and the winner is decided through a penalty shootout, in fact, after a long history of football, and the first official use was not in the World Cup, but in the European Cup.
Between 1867 and 1970, the rules of football did not set out a clear way to break the deadlock, and as the oldest knockout cup competition, the FA Cup was played in extra-time and replays on a later date, and other knockout competitions followed suit - this method is to fight to the end, and if you don't have a result today, you can play again another day but you must continue to play until the final decision is made.
By the early 20's of the 20th century, some informal charity matches began to be decided by comparing the number of corners. However, in 1923 the rules of European football were amended to make it clear that scoring goals was the only valid way to score, emphasizing that games ending with the same number of goals would be considered a draw.
The only improvement is that the rematch will no longer be used. But there is another rather ridiculous solution: let the team use a "coin toss" draw to decide the outcome of the knockout round.
This kind of non-competitive factors are obviously contrary to the original purpose of sports, but it was still carried out for some time, such as in the third European Championship in 1968, when Italy and the Soviet team exchanged a blank draw in 120 minutes, but the Italian team performed better (or more lucky) in the "coin toss" draw, so they successfully reached the final and defeated Yugoslavia in the final to win the first European Championship in the team's history.
Eventually, though, someone will file a complaint.
It was in the quarter-finals of football in the same year, the 1968 Olympic Games, and Israel's draw loss to Bulgaria was seen as the starting point of the modern penalty shootout, and an Israeli journalist, Joseph Dagan, was frustrated that his team had been eliminated in this way, and he proposed a "penalty shootout" after the draw, which was conveyed to FIFA by Michael, the president of the Israeli Football Federation at the time, but it was still a long discussion and waiting, during which it was still a "game of luck".
For the European Championship, the rules are adjusted and applied more flexibly. The 1976 European Championship final was held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, against Czechoslovakia and West Germany (i.e. the Federal Republic of Germany). After regular time and extra-time, the two teams were tied 2-2, so the game went to penalties, the first time in the history of the European Championship that this method was used to decide the winner.
Czechoslovakia won 5-3 on penalties to win their only European Championship – and in January 1993 Czechoslovakia was officially divided into two countries.
For the World Cup, it wasn't until the 1978 World Cup in Argentina that the penalty shoot-out rule was officially introduced, but only 16 teams participated in the World Cup, and none of them were still tied after extra time - the penalty shoot-out rule was there, but this time it was not used.
