A strange little side quest
Zoom out from Soccer Challenge 2018 for a moment and the timeline gets surprisingly deep. The first penalty shoot-out in World Cup history came in the 1982 semi-final between West Germany and France. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. That long chain of experiments is part of why football still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
