I don’t understand why we as a viewing public can’t see exactly when a game will end. It also doesn’t seem like the players are aware. I was watching the end of the Guana vs. Korean Republic match today and it seemed the game ended without notice. How is time kept and who decides when the game ends?
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You’ve already got some answers explaining the time keeping, but there’s a small point of distinction to be made in the terminology being used here, too.
***Extra time*** is what would be known as overtime in American sports. This only comes into play in the knockout/elimination stages of tournaments if the teams are still tied after the initial 90 minutes. Extra time consists of 30 more minutes played, split into 15 minute halves, with the teams swapping sides in each half just like they do during the 90. This is not sudden-death (or “golden goal” as it’s known in soccer/football), but instead the full 30 minutes is played regardless of any goals scored, and a winner is determined at the end (or it goes to a penalty shoot-out). If you look at a list of scores for a knockout game that went into extra time, you’ll see the abbreviation “A.E.T.”, denoting that was the score “after extra time.”
***Added time*** or ***injury time*** is what you’re asking about where the ref tacks additional minutes onto the end of the half to account for time that the ball was not in play.
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