new soccer tactics????

[redwoods]

is this ok or just bad form???

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."

 

[johnnybluenose]

I'm sure once upon a time the "Forward Pass" was considered poor sportsmanship, or a dirty trick, same with an offside trap, or a quickly taken free kick, or the slide tackle, etc etc etc.

Games advance and evolve.

Dropping your shorts may be a different thing though

 

[girth]

Should be banned as you must keep up with dress code at all times....which means shirt tucked in shorts and shorts at hips. What's the limit on length of shorts? Is it above knees?

 

[Dude]

Most refs would penalize and hand out color for that stunt. That said, all open to interpretation unless FIFA does something about it.

Shocked it wasn't called.

 

[knvb]

That's how Dude met his wife.

She's nearsighted.

 

[bluebird]

What's the limit on length of shorts? Is it above knees?

boy you can tell you started playing in the 70's hankering for the good old days i see.......

 

[girth]

boy you can tell you started playing in the 70's hankering for the good old days i see.......

Yoda...what's the proper short length??

 

[johnnybluenose]

In case you hadn't seen it...

 

[Regs]

That's it?

 

[johnnybluenose]

Sum total

 

[Yoda]

Yoda...what's the proper short length??

Lets just say it's faster for me to pull them up than down to show a little skin.

 

[Tuna]

That was a well taken kick and he would have scored regardless.