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Striker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Strikers, also known as centre forwards, forwards, and attackers, and formerly inside forwards, are the players on a team in football in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals. |
 | | Some centre forwards are "poachers", who work in and around the goal area to snatch goals; they are sometimes called a "fox in the box"'; notable examples of poachers are Romário, Ronaldo, Gerd Müller, Gabriel Batistuta, Robbie Fowler, Gary Lineker, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ian Rush, Ian Wright, and Hernán Crespo. |
 | | Other forwards may rely on their pace to run onto balls passed over or through the opposition defence, rather than to collect the ball with their back to goal in the manner of a target man, for example Johan Cruijff, Djibril Cisse, Michael Owen, Fernando Torres and Samuel Eto'o. |
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