A well-taken penalty is a goal. That’s still the conventional wisdom in football. But in modern football, taking penalties well requires additional effort, because the players between the posts now have many tools to help stop them.
 
Today’s technology offers us abundant information about our opponents. This can provide a considerable advantage to our team, and specifically to our goalkeeper, when facing a shot from 12 paces away. This means that penalty kicks are no longer simply a matter of luck or chance.
 
Thanks to the information we now have available, the decision of where our goalkeeper should throw himself can now be chosen in advance, long before the ball is kicked. The methodology for making that decision is the backbone of the technique that the experienced goalkeeper coach Fernando Gayoso successfully applied at Boca Juniors and now shares in this book.
 
In his safe hands
Cristian Álvarez - Esteban Andrada - Luis Ardente - Gabriel Arias - Pablo Bangardino -
Marcelo Barovero - Jorge Bava - Leandro Brey - Jorge Broun - Leonardo Burian - Hernán Castellano - José Luis Chilavert - Sebastián D’Angelo - Ariel De Lafuente -
Jorge De Olivera - Marcos Díaz - Hernán Galíndez - Bruno Galván - Javier García -
Gastón Gómez - Matías Ibáñez - Nelson Ibáñez - Daniel Islas - Bernardo Leyenda - Alejandro Limia - Fernando Monetti - Gastón Monzón - Juan Musso - Agustín Orión - Sebastián Peratta - Manuel Roffo - Sergio Romero - Agustín Rossi - Guillermo Sara - Gastón Sessa - Nelson Tapia - Emanuel Tripodi.