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
Metro. UK
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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