player

Example Sentences

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Leveraging the league’s partnerships with Apple and Adidas, Beckham made Messi the highest-paid player in the history of American soccer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

By 2023, Beckham was an MLS co-owner after exercising an option to establish an expansion team that he’d secured when he joined the LA Galaxy as a player.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Or that a player could be less likely to ask for the physio in fear of hampering their own team.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Scott McKenna is the first player from Kirriemuir – a small Angus town of around 6,000 people – to reach football's biggest stage.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Indeed, some of the Icelandic officials were convinced that Spassky was the better player and that he was going to defeat Fischer rather easily anyway.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady