FW: Former referees co-ordinator Paolo Casarin called the move
"unsportsmanlike and in bad taste"
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:38:21 -0600
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Subject:
Former referees co-ordinator Paolo Casarin
called the move "unsportsmanlike and in bad
taste"
Importance: Low Catania scores by dropping shorts in what official calls 'unsportsmanlike' 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." |