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Mirko Vucinic Booked For Shorts-off Celebration by Nobody: 7:19am On Apr 08, 2013




We've long known that taking your shirt off in celebration of a goal is a bookable offence, but Mirko Vucinic has confirmed what you may well already have guessed - the punishment is the same if you take your shorts off.

The Juventus striker, who had earlier missed an open goal, was more than a little excited about scoring from the penalty spot to give his side a 72nd-minute lead in the Serie A match against Pescara.

He whipped off his shorts and swung them over his head, immediately earning a booking for what our friends at Infostrada have classified as 'unsporting behaviour'.

"It was spontaneous. I felt like it and I did it," Vucinic explained afterwards. He stayed on the field, despite the disapproving reaction from coach Antonio Conte, and six minutes later he scored again, as the Italian league leaders sealed a 2-1 win at home.

Conte, though, was less than impressed after the match with the Montenegrin, appearing to clip him around the head when he celebrated the strike. "It was an affectionate slap," claimed Vucinic. Conte said: "I told Vucinic he had a terrible game and still scored two goals… Imagine what he would’ve done if he had played well.

"It’s important that he scored today and that bodes well for the Bayern match, even if I’m thinking of benching him."
But it's not his first time - here he is celebrating a goal for Montenegro against Wales in 2010. Some people never learn...

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