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# footballer

«footballer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who plays football, especially as a job** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a footballer, footballers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A footballer is a person who plays football, especially as a job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footballer/#m1)

2) In the UK and most countries, football means soccer; in the USA, Canada and parts of Australia, «football» can mean American, Canadian, Australian rules football or rugby league, so a footballer can play those games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footballer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In PE, sport and news; many children want to be footballers. Phrases: «professional footballer», «famous footballer», «young footballer».

### examples

- My cousin wants to be a professional footballer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footballer/#x1)
- The footballer scored a header in the last minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footballer/#x2)
- The footballers ran onto the pitch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footballer/#x3)
- A footballer needs good fitness and teamwork. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footballer/#x4)
- She is the best footballer in our school team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footballer/#x5)
- Famous footballers visited the children's hospital. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footballer/#x6)

### note

Mostly British/Irish/Australian word; Americans more often say «soccer player» or «football player». Plural «footballers».

### In the corpora

- [Footballers and other stars are trained to say safe, boring things, because one wrong word can become a headline.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/22/)
- [When a bot pretends to be a pirate or a footballer, it is still pretending; quotes it invents were never really said.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/13/)
- [Example: a footballer in a Liverpool youth team falls over on purpose to win a free kick.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/8/)
- [Scammers pretend to be famous YouTubers and footballers giving things away; check their real, official account and never send a fee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages/25/)
- [Zara in Johannesburg met a famous footballer at the airport and showed a blurry photo of a tall man's back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «footballer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footballer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.