Sentence examples for role of playmaker from inspiring English sources

After Richards's goal on a redirection 3 40 into the first period, he took on the role of playmaker.

Bryant, who made 7 of 17 shots, had 8 assists and was content to take the role of playmaker.

He wears No. 10, the playmaker's jersey, but he admits that he is not comfortable in the role of playmaker.

"You can't win games without scoring," said Daniel Hernandez, who has assumed the role of playmaker with Clint Mathis, Tab Ramos and Roy Myers injured and out for the series.

Head coach Chris Sailer said Amo has worked to fit into the role of playmaker since she joined the starting lineup in 2007, and this year she "has really taken it over". Amo seems most comfortable behind the goal, directing traffic and looking for cutting teammates.

Then there is Juan Fernando Quintero, the 21-year-old Porto midfielder who came off the bench, slotted seamlessly into the role of playmaker, scored Colombia's second goal and came close to adding an audacious third with a 60-yard shot that had the Ivory Coast goalkeeper frantically back-pedalling.

Lilly scored a splendid goal, secured a corner kick that led to another goal and dominated the midfield for long stretches of the first half, tirelessly shifting between the roles of playmaker and defender.

"We never held it well enough to get forward," said JOE-MAX MOORE, who was unable to fulfill the role of the playmaker in midfield in place of the suspended Reyna.

Conleith Gilligan will assume the role of main playmaker and the old hands are ably supported by some emerging talent.

It was only in 2002, a year after Pirlo had joined the Rossoneri, that the club's manager, Carlo Ancelotti, moved him permanently into the role of deep-lying playmaker.

FOR 13 years, Paul Tagliabue has been, in his own words, the National Football League's "invisible guiding hand," a commissioner content in the role of behind-the-scenes playmaker.