Defender (association football)

In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals.

There are four types of defenders: centre-back, sweeper, full-back, and wing-back. The centre-back and full-back positions are essential in most modern formations. The sweeper and wing-back roles are more specialised for certain formations.

Centre-back

A centre-back (also known as a central defender or centre-half) defends in the area directly in front of the goal, and tries to prevent opposing players, particularly centre-forwards, from scoring. Centre-backs accomplish this by blocking shots, tackling, intercepting passes, contesting headers and marking forwards to discourage the opposing team from passing to them.

With the ball, centre-backs are generally expected to make short and simple passes to their teammates, or to kick unaimed long balls down the field. For example, a clearance is a long unaimed kick intended to move the ball as far as possible from the defender's goal.

Public defender

A public defender is a lawyer appointed to represent people who cannot afford to hire an attorney. It is also a literal translation of the Spanish-language term abogado de oficio, which usually refers to an ombudsman office; it is also the English-language title of the Jamaican ombudsman.

Brazil is the only country where an office of government-paid lawyers, with the specific purpose of providing legal assistance and representation to the destitute, free of charge, is established in the Constitution. In the United States, a 1963 US Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright ruled that the Sixth Amendment of the Bill of Rights requires the government to provide free legal counsel to indigent defendants in criminal cases. Many other countries provide people with public defenders.

By country

In civil law countries, following the model from the French Napoleonic Code of criminal procedure, the courts typically appoint private attorneys at the expense of the state.

Brazil

The Constitution of Brazil uniquely provides for a public defender's office (Defensoria Pública) at both state and federal levels. Public defense is a right to poor people, who must declare, formally, that they cannot afford regular legal aid, to benefit from public defenders' services.

Futsal positions

This is the list of futsal positions, with a brief explanation of what the position is and notable futsal players of that position. The positioning of these players can attribute to different strategies during the game.

Goalkeeper

The goalkeeper (Spanish portero; Italian portiere; Portuguese (Brazil) goleiro; Portuguese (Portugal) guarda-redes) is the most specialised position in futsal (as in many other sports playing for a goal). A goalkeeper's job is mainly defensive: to guard the team's goal from being breached (to not let the other team score). Goalkeeper is the only position defined in the Laws of the Game. Goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands and arms, however they are restricted to doing so only within their penalty area; for this reason, they must wear jerseys that distinguish them from other outfield players and the referee.

Notable goalkeepers

  • Luis Amado
  • Jesús Clavería
  • Sergey Zuev
  • Tiago
  • Mostafa Nazari
  • Defender

    The Defender (in Spanish is named cierre, in Italian difensore and in Portuguese fixo) is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from scoring. A defensive formation, such as 2-1-1, would allow for a more defensive team and have better strength in stopping goals.

    Numeral (linguistics)

    In linguistics, a numeral is a member of a word class (or sometimes even a part of speech) designating numbers, such as the English word 'two' and the compound 'seventy-seven'.

    Identifying numerals

    Numerals may be attributive, as in two dogs, or pronominal, as in I saw two (of them).

    Many words of different parts of speech indicate number or quantity. Quantifiers do not enumerate, or designate a specific number, but give another, often less specific, indication of amount. Examples are words such as every, most, least, some, etc. There are also number words which enumerate but are not a distinct part of speech, such as 'dozen', which is a noun, 'first', which is an adjective, or 'twice', which is an adverb. Numerals enumerate, but in addition have distinct grammatical behavior: when a numeral modifies a noun, it may replace the article: the/some dogs played in the parktwelve dogs played in the park. (Note that *dozen dogs played in the park is not grammatical, so 'dozen' is not a numeral.)

    Zero (name)

    Zero or Zéro is surname, given name or pseudonym of the following people:

  • Gonzalo Barrios (esports player) (born 1995), Professional Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player known by his alias ZeRo
  • João Zero (cartoonist) (born 1950), Brazilian illustrator
  • Karl Zéro, stage name of the french filmmaker Marc Tellenne (born 1961)
  • Lady Zero, stage name of the Japanese professional wrestler Chigusa Nagayo (born 1964), see Zero (wrestler)
  • Mr. Zero, an alias of Urbain Ledoux (1874-1941), activist for the unemployed
  • Renato Zero, stage name of the Italian singer/songwriter Renato Fiacchini (born 1950)
  • Zero, stage name of the Japanese bass player of the former band D'espairsRay
  • Zero Kazama (born 1982), Japanese-American game show host
  • Zero Mostel, stage name of the American actor Samuel Joel Mostel (1915–1977)
  • Zero is name of the following notable fictional characters:

  • Zero Moustafa, a character in The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Zero (Drakengard), a character in Drakengard 3
  • Zero (Kirby), a character in Kirby media
  • Zero (Yeah Yeah Yeahs song)

    "Zero" is a song by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released as the lead single from their third studio album, It's Blitz! (2009). The song received critical acclaim from music critics for its production, and was named the best track of 2009 by both NME and Spin magazines.

    The single had minor commercial success, peaking at numbers four and eighteen on the Billboard Alternative Songs and Hot Dance Singles Sales charts, as well as number forty-nine on the UK Singles Chart. A music video for the single, which shows lead singer Karen O walking the streets of San Francisco at night, was released in March 2009.

    Critical reception

    "Zero" received acclaim from music critics. Paula Carino of AllMusic described the song as "an exhilarating and wide-open expanse of pure electro-pop". Mary Bellamy of Drowned in Sound viewed the track as "the call to arms of a band who desperately want to teleport the refugees of fashion-fizzled pop, the hippest of hipsters and the weirdest outsiders to the dancefloor of their sweaty spaceship", stating it is "perhaps one of the band's finest moments ever committed to tape."

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