midfielder

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Noun

midfielder (plural midfielders)

1. (soccer) A player who operates behind the attackers, in front of the defence.
   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:

     The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.

Synonyms

• midfield player

Related terms

• midfield

Translations

player

• Catalan: migcampista (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中場 (cmn), 中场 (cmn) (zhōngchǎng)

• Danish: midtbane (da)
• Finnish: keskikenttäpelaaja (fi)
• French: milieu de terrain (fr)
• German: Mittelfeldspieler (de) m
• Irish: lárpháircí (ga) m
• Italian: centrocampista (it) m and f

• Japanese: ミッドフィールダー (ja) (middofīrudā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: midtbanespiller (no) m

  Nynorsk: midtbanespelar (nn) m

• Polish: pomocnik m
• Portuguese: meia (pt) m and f, meio-campista (pt) m and f
• Russian: полузащитник (ru) (poluzaščítnik) m, хавбек (ru) (xavbɛ́k) m
• Swedish: mittfältare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: півзахисник (uk) (pivzaxýsnyk) m