Editing Midfielder (section)

=== Mezzala ===
In Italian football, the term ''mezzala'' (literally "half-winger" in Italian) is used to describe the position of the one or two central midfielders who play on either side of a holding midfielder and/or playmaker. The term was initially applied to the role of an [[Forward (association football)#Inside forward|inside forward]] in the [[Formation (association football)#WM|WM]] and ''[[Formation (association football)#Metodo (2–3–2–3)|Metodo]]'' formations in Italian, but later described a specific type of central midfielder. The Mezzala is often a quick and hard-working attack-minded midfielder, with good skills and noted offensive capabilities, as well as a tendency to make overlapping attacking runs, but also a player who participates in the defensive aspect of the game, and who can give width to a team by drifting out wide; as such, the term can be applied to several different roles. In English, the term has come to be seen as a variant of the box-to-box midfielder role.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.football-italia.net/127534/just-what-mezzala |title=Just what is a mezzala? |publisher=Football Italia |last1=Tallarita |first1=Andrea |date=4 September 2018 |access-date=3 January 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731234253/https://www.football-italia.net/127534/just-what-mezzala |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/italian-english/mezzala |title=English translation of 'mezzala' |publisher=Collins Dictionary |access-date=15 April 2020 |archive-date=2 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702093232/https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/italian-english/mezzala |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11096/11258105/how-antonio-conte-got-the-best-from-paul-pogba-at-juventus |title=How Antonio Conte got the best from Paul Pogba at Juventus |publisher=Sky Sports |last1=Walker-Roberts |first1=James |date=25 February 2018 |access-date=15 April 2020 |archive-date=23 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123115857/https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11096/11258105/how-antonio-conte-got-the-best-from-paul-pogba-at-juventus |url-status=live }}</ref>