Liverpool’s signing of Florian Wirtz is bound to have a knock-on effect on several of the team’s midfielders. Acquired from Bayer Leverkusen for a fee that could reach £116m, the 22-year-old is ...

There are several terms for the player in the deepest midfield role. The defensive midfielder. The holding midfielder. The sitting midfielder. The anchorman. They all convey roughly the same kind of ...

Continuing in the rundown of what Vanderbilt will be putting on the pitch this soccer season, we move to a group that lost 3 of its 5 starters who were key contributors in both attack and defense.

These days, the best defensive midfielders in the world tend to be specialists who stay deeper in the engine room. But this was never the case 30 years ago: midfielders tended to chip in to do a ...

In today’s fast-paced game, defensive midfielders are often the unsung heroes—the relentless engine powering every great team. They’re not just ball-winners; they’re tacticians, distributors and ...

Arsenal continue refining their squad, rumours are mounting of a bold midfield target for the winter window, Lucien Agoumé, the French defensive midfielder currently at Sevilla. With departures in ...

Everton midfielder James Garner is one of the Premier League's in-form players, and if he keeps it up, he may well find ...

As the 2025 season winds down, MassLive is taking a position-by-position look at some of the year’s top high school boys soccer players in Massachusetts. Our latest list focuses on the best ...

Weighing in on the perpetual Cristiano Ronaldo/Lionel Messi debate, Rio Ferdinand memorably pleaded with UK audiences during a punditry stint to avoid comparisons and “just enjoy ’em, man.” But ...