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- noun soccer a system of
defensive play
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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.
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The 1930s teams, coached by Vittorio Pozzo, had relied on a defensive style of play known as catenaccio, meaning bolt or lock.
NYT > Home Page By JACK BELL 2010
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The 1930s teams, coached by Vittorio Pozzo, had relied on a defensive style of play known as catenaccio, meaning bolt or lock.
NYT > Home Page By JACK BELL 2010
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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 ...!
CBS Faults McCain Ad Featuring Katie Couric As "Misleading" 2009
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If Italian soccer is so pathetic why have the English and Irish entrusted their precious national teams to "catenaccio" experts?
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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.
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It's akin to the Italian system of "catenaccio," which translates to "door bolt."
Brownsville Herald : 2010
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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 day Liverpool played Carlo Ancelotti at his own game – and won | Richard Williams 2011
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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 day Liverpool played Carlo Ancelotti at his own game – and won | Richard Williams 2011
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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 day Liverpool played Carlo Ancelotti at his own game – and won | Richard Williams 2011
bilby commented on the word catenaccio
Italian soccer jargon - overly defensive style of play that originated in the 1960's.
December 12, 2007