midfielder

English

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

• midfield player

Related terms

• midfield

Translations

player

• Armenian: կիսապաշտպան (hy) (kisapaštpan)
• Catalan: migcampista (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中場／中场 (zh) (zhōngchǎng), 中场 (zh) (zhōngchǎng)

• Czech: záložník (cs) m
• Danish: midtbanespiller c
• Finnish: keskikenttäpelaaja (fi)
• French: milieu de terrain (fr)
• German: Mittelfeldspieler (de) m
• Hungarian: középpályás (hu)
• Icelandic: miðjumaður m
• Irish: lárpháircí m
• Italian: centrocampista (it) m or f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ミッドフィールダー (middofīrudā)
• Luxembourgish: Mëttelfeldspiller m
• Maori: kaunuku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: midtbanespiller m, midtbanespeller m

  Nynorsk: midtbanespelar m

• Polish: pomocnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: meia (pt) m or f, meio-campista m or f
• Russian: полузащи́тник (ru) m (poluzaščítnik), хавбе́к (ru) m (xavbɛ́k)
• Slovak: stredopoliar m
• Spanish: mediocampista (es) m or f
• Swedish: mittfältare (sv) c
• Turkish: orta saha oyuncusu
• Ukrainian: півзахи́сник m (pivzaxýsnyk)