Did you maybe mean one of these? carpaccio, catenation
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. soccer a system of defensive play
Etymologies
- Borrowing from Italian. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“To Anglophone types with an interest in the beautiful game the Italian word 'catenaccio', ( 'door-bolt') is usually familiar only as a once influential defensive system first employed by Inter Milan in the 1960s.”
“The 1930s teams, coached by Vittorio Pozzo, had relied on a defensive style of play known as catenaccio, meaning bolt or lock.”
“Brazil, Argentina, Germany were the favored ones to win, but Italy ate their lunch playing the "catenaccio" or padlock, they just defended piled all their people on defense, opposite teams defense got tired, played all their moves, and when most of their team was on offense, wham! italy went forward and beat them all ...!”
“If Italian soccer is so pathetic why have the English and Irish entrusted their precious national teams to "catenaccio" experts?”
“Meanwhile Italy's club teams often play with a more tactical, defensive approach, inspired by a strategy in the 1970s called "catenaccio," which means "door bolt" in Italian.”
“It's akin to the Italian system of "catenaccio," which translates to "door bolt.”
“May I just point out that Mancini has been peltered all season for being this negative catenaccio guy......but seems to me It's OK for King Kenny and Prince Steve to do so.”
The Guardian: The day Liverpool played Carlo Ancelotti at his own game – and won | Richard Williams
“When Carlo Ancelotti left Milan for Chelsea, he could hardly have imagined that the challenge in England would include a rendezvous with his old friend catenaccio.”
The Guardian: The day Liverpool played Carlo Ancelotti at his own game – and won | Richard Williams
“Catenaccio away from home; catenaccio with a hint of ambition at home.”
The Guardian: Manchester City Premier League 2011-12 team guide
“Now, here was one of his successors at San Siro overseeing the breaking of some very fundamental rules of catenaccio.”
The Guardian: Roberto Mancini furious at Manchester City's second-half slump
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘catenaccio’.
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Sportie: Calcio
football (soccer) words from Italy
bidone, gioco delle buste, cornuto, calcio, fuori le palle, totocalcio, curva, abatino, catenaccio, rete, mister, stopper and 47 more...
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football (soccer) jargon
or terms I learned from soccer coverage even if they are not specific to the game
gol olimpico, rabona, catenaccio, shambolic, nous, gormless, libero, enganche, carrilero, Total Voetbal, Die Mannschaft, geste
Tweets
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bilby Italian soccer jargon - overly defensive style of play that originated in the 1960's. Dec 11, 2007