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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
midfield
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ David Beckham captained the side and played in a central midfield role.
▪ He plays at centre-back for his club and country but is equally at home in central midfield.
▪ Inspiration Four hamstring operations and two bouts of knee surgery later, Ian Snodin is back and back in central midfield.
▪ Played mostly right back last season but can also play in central defence or midfield.
■ NOUN
man
▪ He may also be prepared to part with midfield man Steve Hodge as part of a deal.
▪ The midfield man was involved in the move that put Bari ahead after five minutes.
▪ What makes a truly great team is having two of these in midfield plus a ball winner and a roving midfield man.
player
▪ Middlesbrough will offer new contracts in the summer to full back Jimmy Phillips and midfield player Mark Proctor.
▪ Andrew has played for Stockton and Cleveland County Boys as a winger but could develop into a midfield player.
▪ The game also allowed the long-running feud between Limpar and Derby midfield player Mark Pembridge to continue.
▪ Then again I think to enable Speed and Macca to get forward we need a holding midfield player.
▪ Pool are helping former Newcastle United midfield player Michael Parkinson to recover from injury.
▪ Newcastle United midfield player Gavin Peacock tops Boro's shopping list.
▪ As an advanced midfield player he s ok, but as an out and out striker ... Please!!
▪ Hartlepool collected a £40,000 sponge to soak up some of their debts, Darlington took in exchange their outstanding midfield player.
role
▪ David Beckham captained the side and played in a central midfield role.
▪ Paul Wilkinson operated as a lone striker, with Slaven in a midfield role.
▪ He played a number of games that season in a centre midfield role.
▪ The linking midfield role still needed to be filled.
■ VERB
play
▪ Hard working forward who can play midfield.
▪ McHale said McGee was in with a good chance of starting against Halifax because he can play in defence or midfield.
▪ David Beckham captained the side and played in a central midfield role.
▪ Martin Ling is injured, so Fitzroy Simpson comes off the bench to play in midfield.
▪ Still at school but has already played a few times in midfield for youth team.
▪ Marker, 27, can play in defence or midfield and has a hard-man reputation.
▪ Staunton now plays left sided midfield for Ireland.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jackson carried the ball out of bounds at midfield.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But everything fell apart and Shields began to slice through a non-existent home midfield.
▪ Graham relished the opportunity to upstage Chelsea and found in the talented Russell the width to dominate the game from midfield.
▪ Sandison adopted the McPherson role of organising matters behind the Airdrie defensive line while the midfield remained conservatively deep.
▪ The midfield can not easily force the forward into space.
▪ The game also allowed the long-running feud between Limpar and Derby midfield player Mark Pembridge to continue.
▪ The Spurs chief is determined to beef up his midfield following the departures of Stewart and Paul Gascoigne.
▪ Then again I think to enable Speed and Macca to get forward we need a holding midfield player.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
midfield

midfield \midfield\ n. (sport) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse); as, he ran the kickoff back to midfield.

Wiktionary
midfield

n. (context sports English) The middle of the field of play

WordNet
midfield

n. (sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse)

Gazetteer
Midfield, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 5626
Housing Units (2000): 2393
Land area (2000): 2.596068 sq. miles (6.723786 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002903 sq. miles (0.007519 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.598971 sq. miles (6.731305 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48376
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.455874 N, 86.927044 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 35228
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Midfield (disambiguation)

Midfield is the part of a sports pitch that lies approximately in the center.

Midfield may also refer to:

  • Midfield, Alabama
  • Midfield, Texas
  • The midfield, the group of midfielders in a team
Midfield

Midfield is the part of a sports field that lies approximately in the center. It is a term most commonly associated with football and soccer to refer to the area in and around the center circle, as well as the players who occupy that region, and is also used in field hockey to describe the same area, or in rugby to refer to the area occupied by the players in the center positions.

The term "midfield" in baseball to describe the area between the infield (within the bases) and the outfield.

In American football, "midfield" refers to the halfway line.

Midfield is a term used in airport terminal planning to describe the airside area located between runways that accommodates various airport related buildings and structures.

In Formula One, "midfield" refers to the teams that are not as competitive as front runners, but still score some points over the season.

Usage examples of "midfield".

Anna whacked the ball back to midfield where one of our halfbacks sent it flying to the other goal.

After Brady had gone Arsenal tried out a string of midfield players, some of them competent, some not, all of them doomed by the fact that they weren’t the person they were trying to replace: between 1980 and 1986 Talbot, Rix, Rollins, Price, Gatting, Peter Nicholas, Robson, Petrovic, Charlie Nicholas, Davis, Williams and even centre-forward Paul Mariner all played in central midfield.

Since nobody else was close, Orin picked up the blocked punt's ball, which the Head Coach was gesturing impatiently for from his position at the midfield bench.

Army private named Forrest Gump allegedly miskicked a football during an interservice playoff game in Germany, yesterday, which sailed across the Berlin Wall and landed in midfield on East German territory during the final seconds of the World Cup soccer match between East Germany and the Soviet Union.

But Staedler instead heads away from the wing into deeper midfield, beats one defender, then a second-the goalkeeper doesn't know which threat to counter, Staedler or Cramer-and here you can see the gap Staedler spotted, opening up at the near post, and he puts on a burst of acceleration and shoots!