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  2. Curl (association football) - Wikipedia

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    Roberto Carlos' bending free kick for Brazil (yellow) against France (blue) in 1997 was struck with the outside of his left foot. [3] Free kick takers often curl and put spin on the ball, to curl it over or around the wall of defending players, out of the reach of the goalkeeper. Goalkeepers usually organize walls to cover one side of the goal ...

  3. Game form - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, an auction is a game form that takes each bidder's price and maps them to both a winner and a set of payments by the bidders. Often, a game form is a set of rules or institutions designed to implement some normative goal (called a social choice function ), by motivating agents to act in a particular way through an appropriate choice ...

  4. Free kick (association football) - Wikipedia

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    The referee signals an indirect free kick by raising the arm vertically above the head; a direct free kick is signaled by extending the arm horizontally. [1] A popular method for identifying the different signals is that, for indirect free kicks, the referee holds his hand above his head, creating the letter "I", for an indirect free kick.

  5. World Cup mystery solved: Why players lie down to defend free ...

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    In the 1980s, or thereabouts, free-kick takers began going up and over the wall — so defenders began jumping to add a couple feet to the wall’s height. Once jumping became commonplace, some ...

  6. Glossary of association football terms - Wikipedia

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    A player (blue) about to take a free kick. Foul – breach of the Laws of the Game by a player, punishable by a free kick or penalty. Such acts can lead to yellow or red cards depending on their severity. [92] Free kick – the result of a foul outside the penalty area, given against the offending team. Free kicks can be either direct (shot ...

  7. List of games in game theory - Wikipedia

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    Constant sum: A game is a constant sum game if the sum of the payoffs to every player are the same for every single set of strategies. In these games, one player gains if and only if another player loses. A constant sum game can be converted into a zero sum game by subtracting a fixed value from all payoffs, leaving their relative order unchanged.

  8. Free kick - Wikipedia

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    A free kick in Australian rules football is awarded after a player commits a penalty. The player must then kick the ball back to the other team. When a free kick is awarded, the player's opponent stands the mark, standing on the spot where the umpire indicates that the free kick was paid or mark was taken. The player with the ball then retreats ...

  9. Gamesmanship - Wikipedia

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    When a free kick is awarded, members of the defending team will often pick up the ball and drop it back behind them as they retreat. Whilst not throwing the ball away, which would be an infringement, the purpose is to prevent a swiftly taken free kick. Some goalkeepers are known to use gamesmanship in an attempt to gain an advantage on penalty ...