Words similar to footballer

Example sentences for: footballer

How can you use “footballer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Dole could never have predicted that in this, his grimmest hour, after all these years of morosely pursuing the presidency, he would come to enjoy as his particular friend a chronically cheery former footballer who could broadcast an enthusiasm for gimcrack economic theory in such a way that one could not tell if he was embracing it or mocking it.
The scene moves to the real world of real players and real coaches, and our footballer, still wearing his No.
If not why not start with a footballer?