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Arthur Hutchins

He made his league debut against Sunderland at Roker Park on September 13, 1919 and became Arsenal's regular left back during the 1919-20 season, taking over from Frank Bradshaw who had moved up front to become an inside forward.

Chris Sulley

Christopher Stephen "Chris" Sulley (born 3 December 1959 in Camberwell) is an English footballer who played as a left back.

Darío Rodríguez

Octavio Darío Rodríguez Peña (born 17 September 1974 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan footballer who currently plays as a Centre Back/Left back for Peñarol.

Dennis Cagara

Dennis Mengoy Cagara (born 19 February 1985) is a DanishFilipino professional footballer who plays for Lyngby as left back.

Felix Udoh

Felix Okon Udoh (born 28 December 1993) is a Nigerian footballer who currently plays as a Left back for Partizani Tirana in the Albanian Superliga.

Léo Medeiros

But the player did not take the chance offered by then-coach Andrade, who used improvised on the left back and ended up forgotten in the red-black cast.

Luiz Fernando de Almeida da Silva

Luiz Fernando de Almeida da Silva (born 14 January 1986 in Campo Grande) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a left back for Teuta Durrës in the Albanian Superliga.

Matthew Hartmann

Matthew James Calibjo "Matt" Hartmann was born on August 19, 1989, is an EnglishFilipino footballer who plays as a left back or left midfielder for Loyola Meralco Sparks.

Milan Mišůn

Milan Mišůn (born 21 February 1990 in Příbram) is a Czech footballer who currently plays as a left back or centre back for 1. FK Příbram in the Gambrinus Liga.

Mohamed Soumaïla

He plays for Olympic Nimaey as a left back.

Nikola Ignjatijević

Nikola Ignjatijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Игњатијевић; born December 12, 1983 in Požarevac) is a Serbian footballer who plays as left back for Ukrainian club Zorya Luhansk.

Orlin Peralta

Orlin Orlando Peralta Gonzáles (born 12 February 1990 in Guanaja) is a Honduran footballer who plays as a left back for C.D. Motagua.

Philipp Lahm

However, he was chosen as the left back for the UEFA Team of the Year 2006 and came second in the same election next year, losing only by less than 1% of the given votes to the winner Éric Abidal.

Rhys Tyler

Rhys Tyler (born 18 September 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays in Germany for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen as a left back.

Roy Posas

Roy Francisco Posas Ferrufino (born 14 March 1984 in Danlí, El Paraíso, Honduras) is a Honduran footballer who plays for Liga Nacional de Honduras club Atlético Choloma as a left back.

Said Fazlagić

Said Fazlagić (born January 25, 1969 in Sarajevo) is a retired Bosnian international footballer who played professionally in Europe and the United States as a left back.

Stefan Marinković

During his tenure in the various youth ranks at Lucerne, Stefan Marinković had several trial periods with both Juventus and Arsenal, before the young Left back opted to sign with Ajax instead.

Walter Kannemann

Walter Kannemann (born 14 March 1991 in Concepción del Uruguay (Entre Ríos), Argentina) is an Argentinian footballer who plays as an left back for San Lorenzo of the Argentine Primera División.

Zairul Fitree Ishak

Zairul Fitree Ishak (born 2 April 1985) is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays for Kelantan in Malaysia Super League mainly as a left back.


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1990–91 Port Vale F.C. season

Left-back Colin Gibson scored on his debut, having arrived on loan from Manchester United; whilst future-Nigerian international Reuben Agboola also arrived on loan from Sunderland.

2008–09 Luton Town F.C. season

Harford introduced several younger players into the aquad, including 16-year-old left-back Jake Howells from the youth team, 19-year-old Harry Worley on loan from Leicester City and 20-year-old striker Tom Craddock on loan from Middlesbrough.

Bridgehampton Sports Car Races

The course ran counterclockwise on an approximately 3-mile (4.8-km) rectangle, beginning on Montauk Highway, then turning left onto Halsey Lane, left onto Pauls Lane, left onto Ocean Boulevard, and left back onto Montauk Highway.

César Luis Menotti

His first significant success was achieving the 1973 Metropolitano title with Huracán, with a legendary attacking lineup: René Houseman, Miguel Brindisi, Roque Avallay, Carlos Babington, and Omar Larrosa, backed up by veteran midfielder Alfio Basile and left-back Jorge Carrascosa, known as el lobo ("the wolf"), who was the team captain.

Claudine Mendy

In the upcoming 2012-2013 season the left back will play for ŽRK Budućnost.

Cockshut Hill Technology College

Mat Sadler - Walsall left-back and former England U-16 and U-17 captain.

Daniel Lins Côrtes

Daniel, a foundation player of the Phoenix, was the second player to reach 50 appearances for the Phoenix behind left-back Tony Lochhead.

Danny McLennan

The Scottish coach had an eye for talent and introduced a number of relatively unknown players to the national team and made them household names, these players included young striker Kadhim Waal, left back Adil Khudhair, forward Ahmed Subhi not to mention Hadi Ahmed and Falah Hassan who he moved from midfield to play up-front with great results.

Darren Campion

Campion then had a trail with League One outfit Carlisle United, where unlike with his two previous trails, impressed Cumbrians manager Greg Abbott, to sign the defender on a short term contract until December 2007, where he acted as cover for Zigor Aranalde at left-back.

David Cerrajería

David Cerrajería Rubio, aka Cerra (born 4 June 1983 in Valencia), is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Platanias F.C. in the Superleague Greece, as a defender (either right of left back).

Dennis Rofe

Rofe was signed by Bloomfield to fill the left back position after David Nish had been sold to Derby County for a record fee of £250,000.

Džemal Hadžiabdić

Džemaludin "Džemal" Hadžiabdić, commonly known as Jamal Haji (born July 25, 1953 in Mostar), is a Bosnian left back who represented SFR Yugoslavia.

Eligio Echagüe

Eligio Silvestre Echagüe Delgado (born 31 December 1938 in Concepción, Paraguay) is a former football defender; most commonly playing in the left-back position.

Ephraim Longworth

Longworth, born in Halliwell, Bolton, Lancashire, England, noted for his lock of hair, was comfortable in either the right or left-back berths.

Federico Balzaretti

He has been selected in the Italian team for UEFA Euro 2012, becoming the starting left-back in the third match at the group stage as Italy moved from 3–5–2 to 4–4–2.

Gary Naysmith

He then became first choice left-back for Scotland's games against Croatia, 0–0 at home and 1–1 in Zagreb.

Geirmund Brendesæter

According to former Brann captain and Aberdeen F.C. left-back Cato Guntveit, the young Brendesæther consistently used to do the tunnel dribble on his opponents while setting the Tippeligaen alight with his firework displays and trademark haircut.

Gordon Gilbert

Gordon MacKenzie Gilbert (born 10 December 1982 in Witbank, Mpumalanga) is a Scottish-South African football (soccer) player who plays as a left back/central defender in the South African Premier Soccer League.

Hasan Ali Kaldırım

In his the first half of his first season for Fenerbahçe he was the teams main left back however, in the 2013-14 season, Kadlec has become the regular left back.

Ian Azzopardi

For the 2009–10 season, Ian had competition in the left back position, following the signing of Clayton Failla from Hibernians.

Ifeanyi Emeghara

The manager of Olympique Lyonnais, Alain Perrin, said that the team needs another left-back since he's not pleased by Fabio Grosso's performances.

Jake Bidwell

He retained his position as manager Uwe Rösler's first choice left back and was a virtual ever-present throughout the season.

Jason St Juste

In the 2012/13 season St Juste started more games due to a groin injury to Scott McManus, but this meant playing in an unfamiliar Left Back position.

Jorge Carrascosa

Jorge Lobo Carrascosa (born 15 August 1948 in Valentín Alsina) is a former Argentine football left back.

Kenny Sansom

He was still the first-choice left back for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, playing in all of the matches up to and including the quarter final defeat against Argentina, in which game he was one of the England players left behind by Diego Maradona as he burst from inside his own half to score his second goal.

Lee Ho-Jin

He has had a tryout with the Finnish club FC Haka who wanted Lee to play as a left back, but he was not signed.

Lee Peltier

Peltier was switched from right back to left back for Huddersfield's game against Millwall due to the usual left back Dean Heffernan being out with a dead leg.

Marcell Jansen

A string of impressive performances later he was even able to keep newly signed Belgian international Filip Daems (Ziege's proposed replacement) off the starting berth on left-back and enjoyed a bright debut season in the professional game, winning a key role for the German U21 as well.

Marián Had

He was the second-choice left-back, behind Brazilian Ronny and, with Leandro Grimi's arrival in January 2008, on loan from A.C. Milan, he was deemed surplus to requirements by manager Paulo Bento, subsequently returning to Lokomotiv in February.

Neal Trotman

On 30 January, he made his debut in the 1–0 win against Yeovil Town at Huish Park, along with two other of Towns new signings on loan striker Nathan Eccleston and Australian left back Dean Heffernan.

Omri Ben Harush

Ben Harush started the season well, after giving a chance in the first team line-up due to an injury of Maccabi's original left-back, Mané.

Pavel Mareš

Pavel Mareš (born 18 January 1976 in Otrokovice) is a retired Czech football player who played as a left-sided centre-back or left-back.

Poul Hübertz

After a 0–2 loss to Port Vale on 24 March 2007, Port Vale chairman Bill Bratt accused Hübertz of playing a part in the melee leading to the red card given to Vale's left back Jason Talbot.

Rodney Rooke

In pre-season for the 1989–90 season during a tour of Scotland, he displaced regular left-back Clive Stafford, impressing enough to earn him a run in the first-team during the opening games of the league season.

Ronnie Moran

Originally a left back, Moran signed professional terms for manager Don Welsh in January 1952 and subsequently made his debut in a 3-2 defeat at Derby County on 22 November 1952, at the age of 18 years old.

Scott Colcombe

Three games into the season he dislodged Arron Davis from the Torquay side and had a run in the side at left-back.

Scott McManus

Having dislodged Jason St Juste from the left back position he picked up from where he had left off the previous season, and despite not winning the awards of the 2011–12 season his efforts were appreciated by players and fans alike, especially after FC Halifax Town's victorious Play-off final victory over Brackley Town.

Sid Ireland

Ireland now made the left-back position his own and was ever-present in the 1912–13 season under new coach Jimmy McIntyre.

Wayne Bridge

He returned to the England team for a friendly against Argentina in November 2005, covering for the injured Cole at left back and winning his 21st cap.

Wilf Rostron

During the 1980–81 Watford manager Graham Taylor played Rostron as a left-back to combat Chelsea winger Clive Walker.

Winston Bogarde

He was also included in the squad for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where was due to start the semi-final match against Brazil, as the first choice left-back starter Arthur Numan was serving a suspension for receiving a red card in the previous encounter against Argentina.

Wu Chengying

Wu Chengying emerged with future Chinese internationals Shen Si, Xie Hui and Qi Hong form Shanghai Shenhua where he was predominantly used in the left back position.