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Strikers are the players on a team in association football in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.

Centre forwards, forwards, and attackers in football are usually strikers, although not all forwards or all attackers necessarily only score goals, some contribute to the attack by assisting other players or obstructing the defense.

Modern player formations include between one and three strikers; two is most common.

Becuase they score more goals than other players, strikers generally are the best-known and most expensive players on their teams.

Well-known strikers

Striker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (813 words)
	Strikers, also known as centre forwards, forwards, and attackers, and formerly inside forwards, are the players on a team in football in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
	Some centre forwards are "poachers", who work in and around the goal area to snatch goals; they are sometimes called a "fox in the box"'; notable examples of poachers are Romário, Ronaldo, Gerd Müller, Gabriel Batistuta, Robbie Fowler, Gary Lineker, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ian Rush, Ian Wright, and Hernán Crespo.
	Other forwards may rely on their pace to run onto balls passed over or through the opposition defence, rather than to collect the ball with their back to goal in the manner of a target man, for example Johan Cruijff, Djibril Cisse, Michael Owen, Fernando Torres and Samuel Eto'o.

Forward of Centre (FOC) (1218 words)
	The FOC value for an arrow indicates how far forward of the centre of the shaft the centre of gravity (COG) is located, expressed as a percentage.
	As the shaft is lighter the COG is further forward and the FOC is larger.
	As covered in the section on drag, the drag force on an arrow is split between two separate forces; one which acts through the arrow centre of gravity which acts to move the arrow and one which acts somewhere else, roughly around where the fletchings are which acts to rotate the arrow.

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