noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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And anyway, the bottom line should be Cottee is unquestionably a better footballer than Stewart.
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He was a good footballer , who would have made the top in that field had he so wished.
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The best footballer of his year he was also regularly in trouble with one teacher or another.
professional
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Chapman took over at Leeds at a time when professional footballers were beginning to assert themselves as an organized body of workers.
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It has also proved a hit with professional footballers .
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Yet both professional footballers and cricketers were subjected to unreasonable restrictions and working practices.
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For example, the professional footballer is an integral part of the production process of producing a football match.
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Even a professional footballer is among her clients.
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Cooperation unbecoming of a professional footballer ?
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He had a brief career as a professional footballer , making eight appearances for Charlton in the early 1950s.
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In that case, the plaintiff was a professional footballer registered with a league club, Newcastle United.
young
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Five-a-side football invitation YOUNG footballers are invited to compete in a five-a-side tournament organised by police at Warrington.
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Read in studio A murder inquiry's under way after the death of a young footballer .
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He had the face and build of a young footballer .
■ VERB
become
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But, then, all kids have heroes; they don't all become rock stars or footballers , though.
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Mitchell supplemented his ring earnings with work as a carpenter and Blake became a pro footballer .
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The reason I became a footballer was simple: I could run faster than anybody else, that's about it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, rugby union has been the poor footballer brother to rugby league in Sydney for decades.
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Although Hampden Babylon will be distrusted by managers, administrators, footballers and agents, it has been written from inside football.
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Even third division footballers don't have those curly bits at the back any more, but Shilton and Keegan still do.
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Most boys and girls dream of being famous footballers, ballerinas or actresses.
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Proprietor is an ex-Hibernian footballer and this bar buzzes with personalities on match day.
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Read in studio A murder inquiry's under way after the death of a young footballer .
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So, do tomboyish girls, and footballers have very long ring fingers?