Catania Players Drop Shorts To Screen Goalkeeper

[croc1977]

ROME - Serie A side Catania has come up with a creative way to score from a free kick: block the goalkeeper's vision by having players drop their shorts down in a wall.

The Sicilian team carried out the manoeuvre to perfection when Giuseppe Mascara scored in Sunday's 3-2 win over Torino.

Three Catania players dropped their shorts down near their knees so Torino goalkeeper Matteo Sereni couldn't see Mascara's kick.

"This is a strategy that (Catania coach Walter) Zenga tries continually in training," the club's chief executive Pietro Lo Monaco told RAI state radio Monday.

Former referees co-ordinator Paolo Casarin called the move "unsportsmanlike and in bad taste.

"It's a trick that should not be tolerated anymore by the referees," Casarin said.

Lo Monaco responded, "A trick? I wouldn't say so. It's up to the referee to decide if it should be penalized, otherwise I don't see where the problem is....Good taste is relative."


PS: Anybody got the video?

[Kiwi8]

Haha this idea is funny! :s13:

[lyfeforce]

Mooning the goalkeeper? That's new.

[Jackson Ng Ghim Pheng]

That is going out of hand footballers should not expose themselves anyway should yellow card them instead

[Kiwi8]

Mooning the goalkeeper? That's new.

If they were wearing briefs then perhaps they were still covered. :D

Anyway, yeah their move is not in the spirit of sportsmanship. :s22:

[Wryer]

OMG. :s13:

Then the defending team should take off their jerseys, make a super big piece of cloth, and cover the the goal.

That will be a nice counter. :s13:

[stanlfc]

anynody got video to share

haha that that the first time i hear ppl use the tatic to take freekick maybe my team should learn also

[Arsenal85]

This is the freekick, but I cant see anytin

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[afbug1]

lol if they do that outside the stadium, they will be charged by the police for indecent exposure regardless with underwear or not. =:p