Football Positions: Central Defender

Definition

  Central defender, also known as center half, stopper or center back, is the player who operates in the center of the team’s defense line. This player is the main part of the defense line and has different responsibilities in the play. All of the old and modern tactics contain such a position.

Football Positions: Full Back

Definition

  Full back, sided defender or wing back these are three different terms, but with common meaning in modern football. We will use all of them in the current article, but we accept the as basic term - full back. The real definition of the position is a defensive player who operates on one of the sides (left or right) of the field.

Football Positions: Goalkeeper

Definition

  As the name speaks by itself, a goalkeeper is a player who keeps the goal. Positioned in the penalty area, the job of the football goalkeeper is to prevent the opposition players from scoring. He is the only player on the field allowed to use his hands (only in penalty area). Other main duties of the goalkeeper are to organize the defense.

Football Positions

  Today we will start a new rubric called "Football Positions". I know a lot of football fans, who argue about the position of some player and often the discussion overs, because one of the participants did not know what the name of the position means (i.e. box to box midfielder). I feel that every man keen on football should know at least the positions of players, so I've decided to start a rubric with definition of all the position in the modern football.