Italian Catenaccio was influenced by the verrou (also "doorbolt/chain" in French) system invented by Austrian coach Karl Rappan.[1] As coach of Switzerland in the 1930s and 1940s, Rappan played a defensive sweeper called the verrouilleur, positioned just ahead of the goalkeeper.[2] Rappan's verrou system, proposed in 1932, when he was coach of Servette, was implemented with four fixed defenders, playing a strict man-to-man marking system, plus a playmaker in the middle of the field who played the ball together with two midfield wings.
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The fundamental difference was the direction the fourth defender was moving in, and it was everything.
Patrick Vieira used W-M formation from the '30s for New York City FC
>catenaccio
3-2-3-2 with very defensive midfielders, a ball-playing sweeper, a false attacking midfielder, aggressive wingers with high work-rates, and a SS assisting a proper 9 would be modernized catenaccio la.
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>false verrou
>like they say in England, a box-to-box midfielder