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The phrase "a player named" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when introducing or referring to a specific player in a sports context or a game.
Example: "In the championship game, a player named Michael scored the winning goal."
Alternatives: "an athlete called" or "a competitor known as".
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Dove Creek has a player named Tommy Fury.
Watson said he could not remember playing with a player named for him.
After West, a player named Martijn from the Netherlands, passed, I was in a quandary.
He warned Boogaard of a player named Kevin Lapp, rated as the league's No. 2 fighter.
THE crowded poker table of low-fare airlines is gaining a player named Ted.
The other day in Kissimmee, I noticed the Astros have a player named Ryan Houston.
In 1997, Indiana Coach Bob Knight was caught on tape choking a player named Neil Reed in practice.
He wore number 13, a number later made famous at Overbrook by a player named Wilt Chamberlain.
In 1975, when the Nets were still on Long Island, a player named Wendell Ladner died in a plane crash.
At the U.K. Championship in 2011, O'Sullivan suffered a particularly dispiriting defeat to a player named Judd Trump.
He gave the nickname Clyde to a player named Melvyn McCoy "because we can't have a big tackle named Melvyn".
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