Germany Coach Silvia Neid needed five volunteers for the shootout that could beat France and put the two-time Women's World Cup champions into the semifinals.
She got four.
Some of her players were looking down at their shoes. Others were on the bench, nursing the wounds they picked up during 120 minutes of physical play on artificial turf that left France's Kheira Hamraoui on the sideline, her face soaked in blood, begging to get back into the game.
Midfielder Dzsenifer Marozsan, who had twisted an ankle, said she would try.
"I don't know how she did it, to walk up to the spot," Neid recalled with amazement.