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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.
If not why not start with a footballer?
The scene moves to the real world of real players and real coaches, and our footballer, still wearing his No.