midfielder

English

Etymology

From midfield +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

midfielder (plural midfielders)

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

     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.

   • 2023 January 3, Ben Church, “How Christian Eriksen returned to football after suffering cardiac arrest on pitch”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Serie A club Inter Milan – whom Eriksen had been contracted to at the time of the incident – let the midfielder move abroad as he was unable to play in Italy unless the ICD device was removed.

   • 2023 March 30, Karen Carney, “Rodri’s Manchester City role shows holding midfielders are key to success”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     Defensive midfielders have to see things before they happen in and out of possession.

Derived terms

• attacking midfielder
• box-to-box midfielder
• deep-lying midfielder
• defensive midfielder
• holding midfielder

Related terms

• midfield
• midfielding

Descendants

• → Japanese: ミッドフィールダー (middofīrudā)

Translations

player

• Albanian: mesfushor
• Armenian: կիսապաշտպան (hy) (kisapaštpan)
• Azerbaijani: yarımmüdafiəçi
• Catalan: migcampista (ca) m, centrecampista (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中場 / 中场 (zh) (zhōngchǎng)

• Czech: záložník (cs) m
• Danish: midtbanespiller c
• Dutch: middenvelder (nl) m
• Finnish: keskikenttäpelaaja (fi)
• French: milieu de terrain (fr)
• Galician: centrocampista m or f, mediocampista m or f
• Georgian: ნახევარმცველი (naxevarmcveli)
• German: Mittelfeldspieler (de) m
• Hungarian: középpályás (hu)
• Icelandic: miðjumaður m
• Irish: lárpháircí m
• Italian: centrocampista (it) m or f
• Japanese: ミッドフィールダー (middofīrudā)
• Kyrgyz: жарым коргоочу (jarım korgoocu)
• Luxembourgish: Mëttelfeldspiller m
• Māori: kaunuku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: midtbanespiller m, midtbanespeller m

  Nynorsk: midtbanespelar m

• Polish: pomocnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: meia (pt) m or f (Brazil), médio (pt) m (Portugal), meio-campista m or f (Brazil)
• Romanian: mijlocaș (ro) m
• Russian: полузащи́тник (ru) m (poluzaščítnik), хавбе́к (ru) m (xavbɛ́k)
• Scottish Gaelic: cluicheadair-meadhain m
• Slovak: stredopoliar m
• Spanish: mediocampista (es) m or f, centrocampista m or f
• Swedish: mittfältare (sv) c
• Turkish: orta saha oyuncusu
• Ukrainian: півзахи́сник m (pivzaxýsnyk)
• Vietnamese: tiền vệ (vi)