Talk:Golden goal

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Who scored the first golden goal in worldcup history

France (against Paraguay, in 1998). Kinitawowi 08:28, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Can anyone please tell me why FIFA is abandoning the golden and silver goal format?

I wondered that too.."The important thing was to have clarity and to have a single method to determine the outcome of a match. The question was, where would we draw the line? Would there later be a bronze goal and then something else?" http://www.fifa.com/en/news/feature/0,1451,74458,00.html -- Paul 18:35, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Article says it all: horrendously unpopular, confusing to have more than one way to play extra time (I refereed a game once where one team was convinced it was golden goal and the other was convinced it was silver goal because they'd both seen it on the telly, when the competition rules said vanilla 30 minutes), etc... Hig Hertenfleurst 23:13, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Shouldn't there be a mention as to why the goal is called 'Golden' in the first place? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.230.205.47 (talk • contribs) 23 Sept 2005.

I read that the powers that be did not like the negative perception of the term "sudden death" that is popular in other sports. --mnw2000

Perhaps; do you have a reference as to why it is? --Daveb 07:58, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removed from the Law?

Are you sure Golden and Silver goal procedures were ever part of the Law of the Game? I thought they were part of the competition regulation, but not from the Law itself?