Dutch Referee Blog - Bluff penalty kick fails and goalie saves the ball

Penalty takers try to mislead the goalie very often, but not all tricks work out as they were meant. Have a look at this bluff penalty.
Don’t know the league or competition, but it’s not important to explain the rules of the game.
The football Laws of the Game by Fifa state that ‘the player taking the kick must be properly identified’. Seeing the video it suggests someone else than the person who actually kicked the ball was the taker. So that means a violation of the procedures. The actual taker ‘infringes the Laws of the Game’.
Also in the Laws of the Game about taking a penalty kick and a teammate infringing the rules:

• the referee allows the kick to be taken
• if the ball enters the goal, the kick is retaken
• if the ball does not enter the goal, the referee stops play and the match is restarted with an indirect free kick to the defending team, from the place where the infringement occurred

But is the player of the attacking team the only player who infringes the Laws of the Game? If you take a good look at the situation, you can see the goalie has left his line to early. The LATG say: that if ‘a player of both the defending team and the attacking team infringe the Laws of the Game: – the kick is retaken’.
NB: In professional football today, no referee sees a goalie who does a small step forward as an infringement. Same with players entering the penalty area (or circle) too early.
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