California High School Soccer Game Takes 52 PK’s To Decide Winner
One of the more anti-climactic finishes in sports are penalty kicks in soccer games. Some of the best games on any level– high school, college, pro or World Cup– end in a draw during regulation and go to a best-of-five penalty kick scenario to decide a winner.
More often than not, one team will knock out the other as they connect on 2 or 3 of the kicks. Most games don’t go to 52 kicks to decide a winner.
California high schools San Diego Crawford and La Jolla Bishop played to a 3-3 draw, and then kept the draw after a 15-minute Golden Goal sudden death overtime, leading to penalty kicks. Crawford and La Jolla then traded a total of 52 penalty kicks– 17 rounds of which took place on the same day as the original game, and 9 more round which took place on the following day.
Now, that is a marathon game.
One can only imagine how exhausting the game was for the players– much less the goalies– and how boring it became for the fans whose butts were implanted in the seats for that much time.
There has to be a better way than penalty kicks to end games like this with playoff implications.
Anti-climactic doesn’t even begin to describe the silliness factor.
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