Italian Soccer Team Moons Opposition, Scores

As well as being one of the premiere soccer-playing nations in the world, Italy has often led the way in developing some of the sport's more nefarious tactics. After diving, match-fixing and the Catenaccio system (which simultaneously decreased likelihood of scoring and the chance American audiences could enjoy the sport), now add mooning to the list.

Preparing to take a free-kick against Torino on Sunday, members of Serie A team Catania dropped their shorts, ostensibly to create a screen that would prevent the opposing goalkeeper from seeing the approaching shot. Whether the keeper's vision was genuinely obscured, or he was simply distracted by the line of exposed Sicilian derrieres, he failed to make the save.

The team's chief executive Pietro Lo Monaco was later unmoved by claims of poor sportsmanship saying, "It's up to the referee to decide if it should be penalized," and adding sagely, "good taste is relative."

Catania went on to win the game 3-2, which makes this most effective in-game tactical flesh exposure since that time Maria Sharapova flashed Serena Williams while serving match point in our dreams.