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wingers
noun
Plural of winger
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Portugal seem unable to produce strikers with the quality of their wingers or midfielders.
At this World Cup, Portugal are on the brink of going home after two games and their two goals have come from wingers, Nani and Silvestre Varela.
With games beginning to pile up, starting with Sunday's encounter with Liverpool, United are left with only three orthodox wingers, one of whom is the largely untested Gabriel Obertan and another, Ryan Giggs, who cannot be expected to feature in every game just two months short of his 37th birthday.
Laszlo Budai and Zoltan Czibor were effervescent wingers.
Gonçalo is following in the footsteps of his father and will hopefully join the ranks of such national goalscoring idols as Luís Figo, Rui Costa, João Pinto and Ronaldo, players who were offensive midfielders, wingers and second forwards, not outright strikers.
In a nation that rarely produces true wingers, he is one of few gifted forwards that is genuinely comfortable playing out wide.
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