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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, carried out the maneuver to perfection Sunday during a free kick. 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. After former referees coordinator Paolo Casarin called the move “unsportsmanlike and in bad taste,” Pietro Lo Monaco, the club’s chief executive, responded by saying: “I don’t see where the problem is. . . . Good taste is relative.” The Associated Press
