footballer

[ foot-baw-ler ]

noun

1. a football player, especially a member of a college or professional team.
2. Chiefly British. a soccer player.

Word History and Origins

Origin of footballer¹

First recorded in 1875–80; football + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Some of it is longer-form like Canadian filmmaker Adrijan Assoufi’s six-minute documentary about one of the last matches legendary footballer Diego Maradona played before he retired.

From Digiday

Footballers rarely get any training on how to develop their own brand.

From Digiday

The social media training a footballer gets, for example, will be focused on not getting the club in trouble.

From Digiday

The NFL teams will all be weighing up the impact of drafting the first openly gay pro-footballer.

From The Daily Beast

But Stoney, who has 116 caps for England, is now the most high-profile active gay footballer in England.

From The Daily Beast

All-American Surprise, Ruined This Boise State footballer wins the game, and the girl.

From The Daily Beast

The footballer insisted the sex was consensual and was cleared of rape—only to plead guilty to simple assault.

From The Daily Beast

He wasn't the first professional footballer she had dated," Barboni says, "but it is better that I don't comment on this.

From The Daily Beast

Bernard Monck swooped down with the action of a practised footballer and took the furry thing out of Tessa's hold.

From Project Gutenberg

He immediately swerved into it like a footballer making a dodging run, then turned away again.

From Project Gutenberg

He felt like a confirmed Association footballer suddenly called upon to play in an International Rugby match.

From Project Gutenberg

With the calves of a footballer and the upper limbs of a Sandow, she is a fearful and wonderful example of the female form divine.

From Project Gutenberg

Good cricketer and footballer, I mean, and all that sort of thing.

From Project Gutenberg