You are correct on defenders, but I was never a high level player. I played one season on a coed rec team (with a great coach, Thanks Mike!), then we moved to a small town where the PE coach laughed at me and told me to move to Germany when I asked why we did not have a soccer team. I played one season there on a youth center team with no coach. We would drive to El Paso for games. The other team was always from Juarez and they would forfeit since they always had players that could not prove they were under 18. We would play anyway and they would blow us out. I was a good enough defender that the coach of one of the Mexican teams came and told me I played a great game with a lot of heart after one game (I was small and fast and liked to slide tackle). I quit after that season since I got tired of my older teammates beating up on me and stealing my ball. I wish I had stuck with it, but skateboards, dirt bikes and band became my outlet. That small town now has a large soccer complex, so I got the last laugh on that PE coach. He is dead not, but FU coach McDowell.