High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Volodymyr Arzhanov (Ukrainian: , born 29 November 1985 in Ukraine) is a Ukrainian midfielder. He is currently playing for the Ukrainian team FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhya, under number 17.In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play (highlighted in blue on the diagram) is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders. Their main functions are to dispossess (tackle) the opposing team, to retain possession of the ball, and to feed it to the strikers, and perhaps, to score as well.