Outside runner (soccer)
As external rotor (also side runners or Half ) were referred to in certain historical game systems in football the midfielder . Together with the half-strikers, they formed the link between defense and attack; Their field of action was - unlike that of the full-backs and wingers - by no means only to be found near the sidelines of the playing field.
For example, in the World Cup system there was a right and a left runner who usually wore the numbers 4 and 6 respectively and originally in 2-3-5 (the Scottish furrow ) together with the almost exclusively defensive middle runner (shirt number 5) the runner row formed. However, the middle runner was withdrawn between the defenders in the 3-2-5 (the World Cup system). The direct opponents of the two outside runners were usually the two opposing half-forwards.
The two outside runners Andreas Kupfer and Albin Kitzinger from 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 formed the legendary pair of outside runners in the Breslau-Elf . The most famous outrunners of the 1950s and 1960s include, for example, the world championship participants Horst Eckel , Horst Szymaniak , Ernst Oc Wirk , Roger Vonlanthen , Billy Wright , Igor Netto and Armand Penverne .