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LEEDS. England. Sept 13 (Reuter): Picking the soccer player for a sudden-death penalty kick is a science, a top psychologist says, and coaches should ask the specialists rather than rely on intuition. . , , , , .
England are one team who have notoriously come unstuck on the verge of entering World Cup and European Championship finals when players have limply missed in a penalty shoot-outs.
George Sik told reporters at Britain's main annual science festival that psychological testing could have identified other players to take the kicks and perhaps got England to the European Championship final.
There are some players who
are temperamentally unsuited for taking penalties and others who are temperamentally suited." said Sik, a psychologist for Saville and Holdsworth, a company which specialises in assessing and profiling people at work.
Defender Gareth Southgate volunteered to take a sudden-death sixth penalty for England in their Euro '96 semifinal which could have taken the home side into their first major final for 30 years. He missed weakly and effectively handed the game to Germany.
Nevertheless, he said afterwards he had no doubts about his ability.
Sik left little doubt in his comments to reporters that he had Southgate in mind as a prime example of a player who should not have been selected for the do-or-die' kick.
He said that best penalty scorer in such a situation is a player with boundless optimism and ability to deal with a rush of adrenaline. He suggested hard-bitten midfielder Paul Ince, who sat out the penalty shoot-out, as a better nominee.
Somebody who is sensitive to criticism, pessimistic about the outcome and who is unnerved by having to act on the spur of the moment would not necessarily be the best choice, even if they volunteered. Sik said.
Keith Blunt, technical director at the English Football Association's training school who listened to Sik's talk, said managers who worked closely with players gained their own psychological insights.
But he said British teams often underestimated the organisation and preparation of their
foreign opponents.
Managers in the United States in sports such as American football ahd baseball were using psychological testing far more than their counterparts on the British soccer scene.
Sik said it was not just choosing who should take penalties that made psychological testing important.
Clubs were spending millions on players while knowing little about them.
"In an industry where millions of pounds may be spent on a player about whose motivation very little may initially be known the more information that can be obtained about that individual, the better." Sik said.