One of the primary reasons for the delay between part I of this series – goalkeepers – and part II is that I couldn’t figure out what to call the guys who play defense outside of the center backs. I prefer wing backs, but that term implies a defender that gets forward and overlaps, and not all of them do. Fullbacks, on the other hand, implies a stay at home fella – the kind of player former Macalester College coach John Leaney likes to call a “yard dog.” The players Minnesota United has deployed at that position have been a little bit of each
Whatever you call them – wide defenders?