Catenaccio N/A

Eleven mysterious figures wearing black hoods with a logo in the front were spotted at the Juventus Stadium last Sunday.            Picture courtesy of Leggo.it They entered the stadium as a single group all walking in a slow, synchronized pace. Once in the stands they all made odd gestures (all synchronized, of course) that wasn’t a reaction to game play, or pace. Sometimes they would raise their arms aloft, other times they would put them out in front of them, or all standing up together.          Juventus Stadium spectators look on, bewildered (Picture courtesy of Leggo.it)             Hooded men stand up together during Juventus-Genoa (Picture courtesy of Leggo.it).

Catenaccio chatted with Lazio Club Canada president, Marc Anthony Fantauzzi about the Toronto-based fan club. 1. When and how did you become a fan of SS Lazio? SS Lazio is the team most followed within my family.  Being that my father's side of the family is from the Lazio region it was, I suppose the natural choice. My grandfather, who spent the better part of a decade working in Rome also imparted a strong attachment to all things Roman.  The moment I really decided that Lazio was my team was when I had the chance to see them play an exhibition game at Varsity stadium against local side Toronto Italia in the late eighties or early nineties.  It was during the Cragnotti era that I truly I fell in love with the biancocelesti .          Members of the Lazio Club Canada gather to celebrate  SS Lazio's  Coppa Italia  victory. 2. How did the  Lazio Club Canada  come about? When was it formed? The club was formed in 2006 when along with a couple friends Da

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Catenaccio,  Italian for "door bolt", is a tactical approach which focuses on defending. It is the only Italian word that has entered English-language soccer lexicon. This blog originated as one about the Serie A experience in North America (NA), which is why the name of this blog was CatenaccioNA. Over the course of time, my experiences that blogging gifted me through various online publications brought me to expand my view to soccer (or football, if you will) more generally. My experience that began as a "little blog that could" took me to Turin where I covered Juventus-Frosinone  and, after that, Toronto FC for several MLS seasons (including two MLS Cup finals) and CONCACAF Champions League matches, as well as the Canadian national men's team . For this reason, the blog has undergone a metamorphosis: it's now known as Catenaccio Not Applicable, as a "tip of the hat" to Italian football's evolving game play from one that was primarily