Players Who Have Made the Switch From Midfielder to Defender

[PeteFTM]

Remember when bruce played onuha up front haha

I was gonna mention this, was the biggest WTF moment in my experience of watching Sunderland. If I remember right he looked as out of place as David James did when he was lumped up front for Man City

 

[Edinburgh Black Cat]

Ledley King, Franck Sauzee

 

[Pilot Light]

Peter Reid played Chris Waddle at left-back for us once

 

[safc_graeme]

Seb Larsson played a lot of games for Sweden as a wing back/right back didn't he?

 

[General Zod]

The article missed the greatest one of all.

The Keizer himself, Franz Beckenbauer.

What about John Charles? Also I think Gullit finished off as a decent sweeper

 

[wakey]

Kevin Phillips started out as a right back not with us like when he was in Southampton youths

 

[Smartin]

Kevin Ball did it in reverse.

 

[LondonMackem]

Remember when bruce played onuha up front haha

And he scored a goal Messi would be jealous of against Chelsea

 

[Smartin]

Sensible World of Soccer, Defenders always got a green tick playing as a defensive midfielder, does this count?

 

[3.142]

John Wark.

 

[tooliohelmet]

Defoe played a few games at full back under dick

 

[myleftfoot1978]

Paul Warhurst moved from defence to attack at Sheff Wed.

he was the one that sprung to mind, remember on the old champ manager games he was a D/M/F/ RLC

 

[NiallFin]

Only one I can think of is Steve Howey who signed for Newcastle as a centre forward and ended up playing for England as a centre half.

 

[Lloyd Christmas]

Wasn't Mexican Jorge Campos a goalkeeper/striker on an early champ manager

 

[codfather]

Borini has played left back a couple times

Y fookin aye

 

[BucketBiff]

Peter Reid played Chris Waddle at left-back for us once

He also tried to turn Thomas Helmer into a left winger

 

[Deleted member 37458]

Think the best switch I have seen was Dave Watson from CF to CH. Went on to get a good few caps for England at centre half.

 

[Wearside2Wrwkshire]

Seb Larsson played a lot of games for Sweden as a wing back/right back didn't he?

Mate is a Birmingham season ticket holder. He remembers Seb filling in at left back for 3 or 4 games when they got promoted with us. Also Keane tried to convert Ross Wallace to a left back 1st season up