Eat My Shorts!
Italy is always on the cutting edge of fashion. In the latest fashion statement out of Italy, soccer players are dropping their shorts to score goals.
Serie A club Catania unveiled the new look on Sunday while taking a free kick. The players lined up in a wall and dropped their shorts in an effort to block the goalkeeper’s view of the ball. The Sicilian team carried out the play to perfection. Three players dropped their shorts practically to their knees so Torino goalkeeper 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 and Inter.
“This is a strategy that Zenga tries continually in training,” Pietro Lo Monaco, the club’s chief executive, told RAI state radio on 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.


