box-to-box midfielder

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Noun

box-to-box midfielder (plural box-to-box midfielders)

  1. (soccer) a central midfielder who plays both defensively and attackingly, who runs a lot up and down the pitch.
    • 2025 October 21, Alex Howell, “The evolution of Rice - how midfielder became Arsenal's all-rounder”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      When Rice signed for Arsenal from West Ham for £105m in 2023, he spent the first six months as a more traditional holding midfielder, before he moved to a box-to-box role following a winter training camp in January 2024.

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