Is a CF a striker?

Superstone Mariomintsch wrote:

babun1024 wrote:

Superstone Mariomintsch wrote:
So, TM, AF, and CF are all main finishers or No.9, while SS and F9 are still considered the second striker. Pedro, Villa, Muller, Nerman are inside forwards. They are all forwards. Then, Ronaldo, Hazard, Robben are not forwards but attackers.

Ronaldo is a forward, his primary role is to bring himself into scoring positions, at least in RM

He's the strangest case because on paper he is in the left of the -3- which should not be forward, but he always end up in the poacher and 45 degree just out of the D box to do the things he does best, stylish machine-gunning

babun1024 wrote:SS= supporting striker, it means there's a striker already, SS play off them
Striker= forward
CF means centre forward literally!

A striker is someone who is supposed to be a goal scorer in my books. He could be a creater as well. A CF is someone whose primary objective is to score goals. You don't see a centre forward creating much upfront by himself unless he plays false 9 or a hold up targetman. The guys for these types of play are ideally Messi and an in form Drogba. Still, their primary roles were to score goals. Torres is CF as well. I don't know why people are confused, did Fifa cloud your minds?
Or better if a centre forward doesn't play like Messi or Drogba, how are they supposed to 'create' much?
SS play behind the guys called CF not in front of them

Example of strikers:

CR7
Messi
Nerman
Hazard
Robben
Pedro
Villa
Muller for Germany

Example of centre forwards/ central strikers:

Drogba
Gomez
Torres
Higuain
Cavani etc.

As you see, every CF is a striker as well but not every striker qualifies as CF

kiranr wrote:
I agree with almost all of it. Just interchange the CF and striker definition and i will agree with all of it.

EDIT: Yeah, i got it wrong. You are right Babun...

babun1024 wrote:

kiranr wrote:
I agree with almost all of it. Just interchange the CF and striker definition and i will agree with all of it.

EDIT: Yeah, i got it wrong. You are right Babun...

I don't get the overall confusion Maybe, it's because I don't play Fifa. What're the definitions there?
Striker and forward are synonyms