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catenaccio

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catenaccio Italian [kateˈnattʃo]
n
(Team Sports / Soccer) Football an extremely defensive style of play
[from Latin catena chain]


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Italy's Marcello Lippi is a dour and studious type whose country invented the much-maligned but effective catenaccio style of play where a team's primary concern was not to concede a goal while scoring one was almost considered an unexpected bonus.
They were successfully stifled by Chelsea eight days ago when their old-fashioned Italian style Catenaccio stifled the hosts, although Alex Hleb, Bojan and Eto'o all missed great opportunities to give Barca an advantage.
There are other times, however, when it produces a result every bit as numbing as the darkest days of Italian football's obsession with catenaccio in the 1960s, albeit in a very different register.
 
 
 
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