you just cannot recreate the special atmosphere and pressure of a World Cup game
still
it seems that Germans , for instance, HAVE often trained them
speaking of the World Cup in 1990, where Beckenbauer led Germany to the title
the KAISER says that they practiced penalties after EVERY training session
or rather, the designated penalty takers DID
he says that he had NO DOUBTS AT ALL Germany would beat England
in the Semis
when it came to penalties
because after all the training sessions, penalties had become second nature to Brehme and Co
" our boys were so good, they could have shot down a fly on the crossbar "
for the 2006 World Cup
Klinsi and Löw even devised a special way of training penalties
or rather, the psychologist did
in order to build up pressure and train PRECISION
the penalty taker would have to ANNOUNCE which corner he would PICK
meanwhile, some of the other players would move frantically BEHIND the goal and make noises, in order to distract the sharp-shooter
in the Sommermärchen documentary
there is the funny scene where Borowski tells Hildebrand which corner he has chosen
and Hilde STILL cannot save the ball
to the hilarity of the players
LATER
Hilde would ask the film director to CUT the scene from the movie
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as far as I understand Capello is also practising penalties
McLaren, in the past, did NOT though
so
a) what does penalty practise look like with your national team ?
b) do you have enough sharp-shooters for a penalty shoot out ?
in Germany, now that Ballack, Frings, Kuranyi are out
we only have
Poldi, Schweini and Jansen
the OTHERS I am not sure about
this time, we could actually lose penalties against Argentina in the Quarters