Roberto Baggio (; born 18 February 1967 ) is a retired Italian footballer, who played mainly as a forward and as an attacking midfielder / playmaker and who is currently the President of the Technical Sector of the FIGC.

Zidane played as an attacking midfielder, and was the leading figure of a generation of French players that won the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship.

By this stage a key player in the Southampton line-up was Guernsey-born attacking midfielder / striker Matthew Le Tissier, the best-loved player in Saints ' recent history.

The next highest scorer is Matthew Le Tissier, an attacking midfielder who spent his entire career with the club between 1986 and 2002, scoring 162 goals in 442 league appearances.

A key signing ahead of the 2007-season included Fredrikstad's Simen Brenne, an attacking midfielder with a knack for scoring important goals.

He made his Second Division debut for them in a 1 – 0 home win over Shrewsbury Town on 22 October 1980 and quickly established himself as an effective attacking midfielder, playing alongside Kevin Keegan and Peter Beardsley as Newcastle won promotion to the First Division at the end of 1983 – 84 season.

He plays as an attacking midfielder and sometimes as a supporting striker.

An exceptional dribbler on the wing, also capable of playing as an attacking midfielder and as a second striker, he is often regarded within the media as " Australia's finest football export ", despite his career being blighted with injury.

Ambidextrous, the attacking midfielder was mainly known for his skills and shooting ability.

However, after selling Kris Boyd to Rangers in January 2006, Killie had to rely on goals from young attacking midfielder Steven Naismith, striker Colin Nish and winger Danny Invincibile.

He plays primarily as an attacking midfielder, but he is also used as a winger or forward.

However, after selling Kris Boyd to Rangers in January 2006, Killie had to rely on goals from young attacking midfielder Steven Naismith, striker Colin Nish and winger Danny Invincibile.

An attacking midfielder with exceptional technical skills, Le Tissier is the second-highest ever scorer for Southampton behind Mick Channon and was voted PFA Young Player of the Year in 1990.

The present role of centre forward is interchangeable with that of an attacking midfielder, especially in the 4-3-1-2 or 4-1-2-1-2 formations.

More recently, two more variations of this old type of player have developed: the second or shadow or support or auxiliary striker and, in what is in fact a distinct position unto its own, such is Luis Suarez, number 7 and the Number 10, Diego Maradona who is often described as an attacking midfielder or the playmaker.

The False 9, in some ways, similar to a more advanced attacking midfielder / playmaker role, is an unconventional lone striker or centre-forward, who drops deep into midfield.

Although his primary position is attacking midfielder, he can play anywhere in the midfield, including defensive midfield and either wing.

Zlatko Zahović ( born 1 February 1971 ) is a Slovenian former football player who played as an attacking midfielder.

Two possible positions for an attacking midfielder are indicated in the blue oval.

An attacking midfielder is any midfielder who is stationed in a more advanced midfield position to assist goalscoring.

The attacking midfielder is an influential position and requires the player to possess good technical abilities, an eye for a pass, running and dribbling skills.

The attacking midfielder position is also referred to in Brazilian Portuguese as " meia " or " meia-atacante " (" attacking midfielder " in English ).

In this period, the eastern part of the island rose against the new powers following general Juan Sánchez Ramírez's claims of independence from France, which broke the Treaties of Bâle attacking Spain and prohibited commerce with Haiti.

He quickly rose up the ranks, and was known as a good strategist, albeit cautious, with an aversion to attacking unless victory appeared almost assured.

The first instance of this occurred on July 4, 1863, at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg that had just ended ; dead soldiers from both sides of the conflict rose from the battlefield and began indiscriminately attacking the surviving soldiers and civilians.

The talks were not successful, and tempers rose over the police treatment ; AIM activists caused $ 2 million in damages by attacking and burning the Custer Chamber of Commerce building, the courthouse, and two patrol cars.

Attendances rose at Elland Road from 8, 500 to 13, 000 in his first year, as Chapman's attacking side scored 70 goals, the second-highest total in the entire division.

The Brigadier himself was killed, and as casualties rose its shrinking line could no longer cover the frontage of the attacking column.

Even after the Arabs had subdued the country, many cities rose in rebellion, killing the Arab governor or attacking their garrisons, but reinforcements from the caliphs succeeded in putting down all these rebellions and imposing the rule of Islam.

Then, after the Deepcoiler dove, it rose again, attacking Spriggat.

Although Mauchlen ’ s greater experience cast McAllister as the ' make-weight ' in the deal, he soon rose to prominence as an attacking force in Leicester midfield, impressing manager and fans alike with his accurate passing to feet, and confident range of skills on the ball.

With parents failing to provide proper nests, thoughtlessly ditching their young and even attacking them, infant mortality rose as high as 96 % in certain sections.

When the bright moon rose, Ghatotkacha, son of Bhima slaughtered numerous warriors, attacking while flying in the air.

After defeat in 310 BC he took the desperate resolve of breaking through the blockade and attacking the enemy in Africa.

They would be provided slight shelter from the sun by the corn, and would deter many animals from attacking the corn and beans because their coarse, hairy vines and broad, stiff leaves are difficult or uncomfortable for animals such as deer and raccoons to walk through, crows to land on, etc.

As the last man standing, the player character's mission is to fight through the entire onslaught of demonic enemies by himself in order to keep them from attacking Earth.

Once again, 90th Light failed to make progress so Rommel called the Afrika Korps to abandon its planned sweep southward and instead join the effort to break through to the coast road by attacking east toward Ruweisat Ridge.

Ma Bufang also crushed Mongol separatist movements, abducting the Genghis Khan Shrine and attacking Tibetan Buddhist Temples like Labrang, and keeping a tight control over them through the Kokonur God ceremony.

This was done in retaliation for the French killing of the boys and other noncombatants handling the baggage and equipment of the army, and because the French were attacking again and Henry was afraid that they would break through and free the prisoners to fight again.

Eager to prevent the war spreading to Europe, Newcastle now tried to conclude a series of treaties that would secure Britain allies through the payment of subsidies-which he hoped, would discourage France from attacking Britain.

The participants include the Blancs-Moussis, who dress in white with long red noses, and parade through town attacking bystanders with confetti and dried pig bladders.

Bluefish sometimes chase bait through the surf zone, attacking schools in very shallow waters of water, churning the water like a washing machine.

Where Chum Kiu attacked and defended linearly, and Biu Tze cut through the opponent's defenses from different angles, Wooden Dummy focuses on attacking from multiple angles simultaneously, while moving around the opponent.

Some echinoids ( such as Tylocidaris clavigera, from the Cretaceous period's English Chalk Formation ) had very heavy, club-shaped spines that would be difficult for an attacking predator to break through and make the echinoid awkward to handle.

Osorkon II, is known to have entered the Kingdom of Judah, with a huge army, in 853BC ; however, rather than attacking Judah, the army was just passing through, on its way to attack the Assyrian forces.

The Persian troops, instead of attacking the Greeks via a direct assault, decoyed them into the interior, beyond the Tigris, and then attack through trickery.

Furthermore when the feud with the UVF was launched in 2000 through C Company members attacking the UVF's Rex Bar stronghold a few C18 members fought alongside the UDA men.

During the American Revolution, detachments of soldiers were sent through this region with the intent of attacking natives who were friendly to the British.

The British themselves considered this enough of a problem that they signed three treaties with Persia, in 1801, 1809 and 1812, to guard against an army attacking India through Central Asia.

Memorable moments of this series include Alan dry-vomiting his way through a speech about fireplaces after impaling his foot on a spiked fence ; mistakenly getting involved with swingers ; attacking a six-foot stuffed Beefeater bear ; his summing up the entire opening of The Spy Who Loved Me in less than a minute during a failed attempt at a 24-hour Bondathon ; Lynn's baptism at her Baptist church and, of course, the sad pulping of his autobiography which, despite taking up four weeks of his life to write, simply wasn't selling well ( partly because every anecdote ended with the phrase " Needless to say, I had the last laugh ".

In 1096, Bohemond, along with his uncle Roger I of Sicily the great count of Sicily, was attacking Amalfi, which had revolted against Duke Roger, when bands of crusaders began to pass, on their way through Italy to Constantinople.

Individually, it refers to attacking the enemy's sword, breaking it, removing it from play, and a technique of controlling it through direct blade on blade contact.

The Allies were prompt in exploiting the break in the German lines, dispatching troops from the BEF to join the French Fifth Army in pouring through the gap between the two German armies, the right wing of the Fifth Army simultaneously attacking the German Second Army ( the Battle of the Two Morins ()— named after the two rivers in the area, the Grand Morin and Petit Morin ).

In the past, acquisition has been gained through attacking other ships and worlds and taking anything of value.

6. Panzer formed a part of Panzergruppe Guderian, an army-sized formation charged with attacking through the Ardennes and encircling the allied forces involved in combat in Belgium.

The attacking forces easily passed through the dancing horses and their helpless riders, and conquered the city.

The attacking forces then moved west along the Via della Vittoria, through the Halfaya Pass and captured Fort Capuzzo, Libya.

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