Sentence examples for he was player from inspiring English sources

"I hope he will be just as dazzling a manager as he was player".

Not any more, though, and last season he was player of the year.

He was known as "Big Mo" at Coventry City, for whom he was player of the year in 2003; he also took the field for Derby County.

Among the personal accolades, he was player of the tournament at the world junior championship in 1999 and was voted the Ospreys' players' player of the year in 2009-10, having previously played for Toulon after leaving the Hurricanes in Wellington.

He was player of the year for Hearts for me.

He was player of the tournament as his country won the 50-over World Cup last year, with his last limited-overs game being the final against Sri Lanka, although he featured in three Tests later in 2011.

From 1932 to 1938 he was player-manager for the Pittsburgh Crawfords.

Garth Crooks, in an early journalism stint for the Sunday Times, described the gulf between Hoddle and his contemporaries when he was player-manager at Swindon Town.

He was player-coach until 1953 and full-time coach until he was fired during the 1956-57 seafter afthe the Nationals got off to a slow start.

He was player-coach of the club in his last spell from 2015-2017.

Hewitson added: "He was player-coach last year at the club and always made his intentions known that he wanted to move into management.