The Active and Passive Voices

In the play-by-play passage of the soccer game, you may have also noticed the change in verbs from active in the first example to passive in the second.

Active Voice	Passive Voice
I don’t think he’ll get it.	It is considered that his reception will not occur.
The ball is heading for the corner.	The ball is being projected toward the corner.
Malouda heads it the other way.	A header is carried out by Malouda.
He scores!	A goal is scored!

Overusing passive voice is another characteristic of the institutional style. Like noun-based writing, it tends to sap the sentence of any sense of action.