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Inside forward
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Forward (association football).
Inside forward
The position of inside forward was popularly used in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. The inside forwards would support the centre-forward, running and making space in the opposition defence, and, as the passing game developed, supporting him with passes. The role is broadly analogous to the "hole" or second striker position in the modern game, although here, there were two such players, known as inside right and inside left.