• Early catenaccio: Nereo Rocco

    Evolved from the Swiss 'verrou' systemMan-marking by stopper and both terzinos (full-backs).Introduced in Italy by Nereo Rocco in the 50s, initially used by Helenio Herrera in the early 60s during the early days of ...

    Roberticus | 20.06.2009


  • Offensive Catenaccio Formation(1-3-4-2)

    This is the so called offensive "Catenaccio" formation. This is basically a 4-4-2, but there is something different in the defense. Instead of having a flat 4 you have a diamond 4. You got the left-back,right-back, sweeper, ...

    Redrebel | 15.11.2008 | Comments: 9