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Sepp Blatter has described penalty shootouts a "tragedy" and is hoping an alternative solution can be found.

Both the African Nations Cup and Champions League finals this year were decided on penalties, and the World Cup final has twice - in 1994 and 2006 - gone to a shootout.

FIFA president Blatter has now called on Franz Beckenbauer, head of the Football Task Force 2014 that has been charged with recommending rule changes, to come up with another means of deciding matches.

"Football can be a tragedy when you go to penalty kicks," Blatter told the FIFA Congress in Budapest. "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."

Beckenbauer, an honorary president at Bayern Munich, had said Chelsea were deserving Champions League winners in the wake of their shootout victory over his former club at the Allianz Arena.

"Why are the English to blame when Bayern are not able to convert their dominance? Luck was on Chelsea's side this time and that is why they are deserved Champions League winners," he said. "Nonetheless, Bayern was the better team for most parts of the game."

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You mean what they do in NHL, go from the halfway line one on one with the GK

Not sure what they do in NHL but you must remember them old nes football games if you drew a match you would have to run with the ball and beat the keeper. But like how fifa starts and there was a time limit pretty sure u had to take on a defender also who's aim was to get the ball past the half way line.

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