Catenaccio is a defensive system built around man-marking and sweeping. Essentially, it involves dropping a central midfielder back into a more deep-lying defensive position, and using them as a sweeper who plays behind the rest of the back line.
This is part of the “What are words for?” project.This word scored a seven on a three part scale of allusiveness, political oomph and cultural capital (min score 1, max score 3 for each part of the scale)
marchudson.net 