The goalkeeper’s anxiety at the penalty kick

Peter Handke, Austrian Nobel prize winning writer, has described the goalkeeper’s dilemma at a penalty kick, to perfection, in his short novel from 1970, Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, or The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (also adapted as a movie in 1972, by Wim Wenders). The protagonist, Joseph Bloch, former goalkeeper and now a murderer on the run, is watching a football game, from the sidelines, in the company of a traveling salesman. A penalty kick was called. All the spectators rushed behind the goal. <a href="https://medium.com/@abhinavka/the-goalkeepers-anxiety-at-the-penalty-kick-67b1c6372769">Learn More</a>