Tuesday,
November 18, 2008
Cheeky Catanians
"Drop Your Shorts" Tactic Beats Torino
Catania soccer team perfected a
free-kick routine which requires three of their players to stand midway
between the free-kick taker and the goalkeeper and lower their shorts to their
knees, preventing the keeper from seeing the ball get kicked. It proved vital
as Catania won
the game 3-2.
Cheeky
Italians Drop Their Shorts
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
There
was fun as well as games in Serie A last weekend where
Catania have perfected a free-kick routine which requires their
players to drop their shorts.
The
theory is, three players stand midway between the free-kick taker and the
goalkeeper and lower their shorts to their knees, preventing the keeper from seeing
the ball get kicked.
It
sounds daft, and it is daft - but it also works, as Torino goalie Matteo Sereni (remember him Ipswich
fans?) found to his cost when Giuseppe Mascara thumped one past him on Sunday.
It
proved vital as Catania
won the game 3-2, but the routine could also prove shortlived.
'It's
a trick that should not be tolerated anymore by referees,'
moaned former referees' chief Paolo Casarin, who branded
the move 'unsportsmanlike and in bad
taste'.
Hopeful
Catania chief executive Pietro Lo Monaco
responded 'Good taste is relative.'
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