Blatter Seeks Penalty Alternative

Sepp Blatter has called for an alternative option to penalty shoot-outs, less than a week after Chelsea secured their first Champions League victory on spot-kicks.
The FIFA president said football 'loses its essence as a team sport' when a game is decided by penalties and believes the drama of a final can suddenly turn into a 'tragedy.'
And the 76-year-old has asked Germany's Franz Beckenbauer, who leads a FIFA task force looking at future developments within sport, to find a different way of settling games.
At the FIFA Congress in Budapest, Blatter said: "Football can be a tragedy when you go to penalty kicks.
"Football should not go to one to one, when it goes to penalty kicks football loses its essence.
"Perhaps Franz Beckenbauer with his football 2014 group can show us a solution perhaps not today but in the future."
Penalty shoot-outs began in 1970, replacing coin tosses, replays and the drawing of lots as the method used to settle a tied game.
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