mmm... i think that i have understood what do you mean (and that's not catenaccio):
|___2______6____|
|__3 ________7__|______11
|_______________|__10
|__4________8___|
|___5_______9___|---> move up during offensive actions
<--- moving down during defensive actions
If with the term "catenaccio" u mean that movement, then yes, it has been done, but that's not catenaccio at all.
At max u can define it as a sort of continue changing between 4 - 4 - 1 - 1 in when defending to 1 - 3 - 4 - 2 when attacking (in a much fluid way imho)
Take a look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenaccio
Catenaccio today
Nowadays, catenaccio is used mainly by weaker teams, in order to reduce any technical gap against stronger ones by showing a more physical approach to football. The slow disappearance of the role of sweepers in modern football has also contributed to the decline in its use.
The catenaccio system is often criticized for reducing the quality of football games as a spectacle. In certain parts of Europe it became synonymous with negative football since the attacking aspect of the game is neglected.
One frequent mistake is to define catenaccio as any defensive tactical system used by a football team. This is actually untrue, because catenaccio is just one of the possible defensive tactics to be used. Nowadays catenaccio is used less and less by top teams, and often limited solely to particular circumstances, such as numerical inferiority following a sending off, or needing to defend a marginal scoreline until the end of the match. Thus, today catenaccio is also frequently referred to as any extremely defensive mental approach to a football match by a team.
Catenaccio is often thought to be commonplace in Italian football, however, it is actually used infrequently by Italian Serie A teams, which instead prefer to apply some other, more modern, tactical systems, like 4-4-2 and others. This does not apply to the Italian national football team, however. Italy's previous coaches, Cesare Maldini and Giovanni Trapattoni, used the catenaccio at international heights, and have all failed to reach the top. Italy, under Maldini, lost on penalties at the 1998 FIFA World Cup while Trapattoni lost early in the second round at 2002 FIFA World Cup and disappointingly lost at the 2004 European Football Championship during the first round.
When Italy was reduced to 10 men in the fiftieth minute of the 2006 FIFA World Cup round of 16 match against Australia after dominating the first half, coach Marcello Lippi changed the Azzurri's formation to grind out a 1-0 result which caused the Guardian to note that "the timidity of Italy's approach had made it seem that Helenio Herrera, the high priest of catenaccio, had taken possession of the soul of Marcello Lippi"[1]. Note, however, that the 10 men team was playing with a 4-3-2 scheme, just a midfielder away form the regular 4-4-2.
Imho that explain all.
And however, whatever tactics Italy used, it has been surely more effective then germany ones, because they wins, not germany.
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illepall