Definition of libero in English:
libero
nounPlural liberos ˈliːbərəʊˈlibəroʊ
Soccer another term for sweeper (sense 2)
Example sentencesExamples
- Wing-back Fabrice Ehret and libero Teddy Bertin are the other main men.
- Colquhoun has moved from being the libero last year to being the setter this year.
- ‘We tried to let him play free more as a libero,’ says Schmid of Lalas' role.
- Oxford's men's team were missing their enigmatic libero (a specialist passer), Denis Zuev, but Benjamin Collier confidently took his place.
- Ballack's former life as a libero has ensured that he shares with Matthaus a rare ability to shore up the midfield as well as punctuate it with important passes and well-timed surges into opponents' penalty boxes.
- In soccer the bulk of media and fan attention is paid to the midfield liberos or the prolific goal-scorers.
- Waterloo libero Brian Fuchs returns a serve as his teammates look on during Wednesday's action versus the visiting McMaster Marauders.
- The finals-clinching game, far from a free-wheeling exchange of firepower, was deadlocked at 1-1 for hours and ended, at last, on a fluke goal from the rear-guarding libero, of all people.
- The position of libero in volleyball is a very unspectacular one.
Origin
1960s: from Italian, abbreviation of battitore libero 'free defender', literally 'free beater'.