Italian soccer strategy gets a racy look
PrintROME (AP)—In the latest fashion statement out of Italy, soccer players are dropping their shorts to score goals.
Catania, a team in the country’s top division, unveiled the new look while taking a free kick. The players lined up in a wall and dropped their shorts in an effort to block the goalkeeper’s vision.
The Sicilian team carried out the maneuver to perfection Sunday. Three players dropped their shorts practically to their knees so Torino goalie Matteo Sereni couldn’t see the kick by Giuseppe Mascara, who scored during Catania’s 3-2 victory.
Catania is coached by Walter Zenga, a former goalkeper on Italy’s national team.
“This is a strategy that Zenga tries continually in training,” Pietro Lo Monaco, the club’s chief executive, told RAI state radio Monday.
Former referees coordinator Paolo Casarin called the move “unsportsmanlike and in bad taste.”
“It’s a trick that should not be tolerated anymore by the referees,” he said.
Lo Monaco replied: “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.”[/i]
BREAKING NEWS!!!
Cristiano Ronaldo today expressed his desire to make an
immediate move to Serie A, forego contract negotiations with Manchester United, and give up his
alledged dream of plying his trade at The Barnebeau.
He claims that he would be close
tr to home and friends if he could play in his dream city, at the club he has supported since his first ever full body wax experience - Catania.
Rainbow breaks from the clouds
Catania management was so excited by the prospect, they peed in their plants. Ladyboys from the world over are now f
locking to this modest Italian town, who do not seem to be hit by the crisis rocking the retail industry, as everything rainbow coloured seems to be flying off the shelves.
