Sentence examples for ball winner from inspiring English sources

Lloyd was named the Golden Ball winner.

He reminded some of Patrick Vieira, the combative ball winner in Arsenal's best team in recent memory.

After a slow start, Rossi became the Golden Boot and Golden Ball winner of the Italian team that won the World Cup in Spain.

Smith, while still a competitive professional, never regained the tenacity that Ferguson hoped would make him the successor to Roy Keane as United's ball winner in the midfield.

He has become integral to the team, serving as both a strong ball winner and a subtle playmaker at the base of midfield.

The gathered media, most of them Mexican, also voted with their hearts, voting him the adidas Golden Ball winner as tournament top player by a wide margin.

"We acted like ball winners in the midfield and started the attack so much higher.

They are the dogs of war, the ball winners, the men who must stop the Spanish from building rhythm.

The games were always three on three, and if you scored, you regained possession of the ball — "winners out".

And it is a fair assumption that Ghana's Serbian coach, Milovan Rajevac, tells his midfield ball winners to stick to the job handed to them.

That said, the under-20 tournament has traditionally been a better predictor of future success than the under-17 event; recent Golden Ball winners include Manchester City's Sergio Agüero (2007) and Barcelona's Lionel Messi (2005).