Now, the president seemed to have become one of the general's defenders.
The number of defenders inside the city was only about 1,000.
He was one of the best defenders his country has ever seen.
He was one of the club's most important defenders at the time.
Along with some of the defenders, for it had been a close run thing.
He was one of the world's best defenders for a decade in the 1960s.
There wasn't anything left of the defenders worth looking at.
The job of the defenders was to account for each one.
Since then, he has established himself as one of the top defenders in the national team.
He was one of the best European defenders in the early 1970s.