In England's case, England goes out of every single World Cup and every single European competition because it loses on penalty kicks, usually to Germany, it has to be said.

拿英格兰做例子吧,英格兰每次在世界杯或者欧洲杯中出局,都因为栽到了点球上,尤其是对阵德国的时候

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You guys are playing for America and you're taking this penalty kick and it's the last kick in the World Cup, how many of you, show of hands, how many of you would shoot to the left?

如果你们为美国队效力,现在由你们来主罚点球,而且那是世界杯上一个制胜球,请你们举手,有多少人选择从左路射门

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So this is a game that occurs in soccer and just to give an idea of how important it is for those people who are unfortunate enough not to be soccer fans here, the last World Cup was decided on penalty kicks.

所以这是一个有关足球的博弈,我先告诉在座的不是球迷的同学,为什么说这个很重要,因为上届世界杯冠军就是点球决定的

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