Sentence examples for second footballer from inspiring English sources

He wants a second footballer in his midfield, rather than a Steady Eddie at No 10 and a couple of 24-carat bosh merchants at centre, and is equally keen to inject additional guile into a back-row unit that had its limitations exposed in the autumn by the likes of Juan Fernandez Lobbe, the brilliant Argentine No 8, and Imanol Harinordoquy, France's sensational Basque.

He is only the second footballer to win the award since this century, after Brazil striker Ronaldo in 2002.

Stanley Matthews won the first Footballer of the Year award in 1948.

So is it fan pressure stopping the first footballer coming out?

Neville isn't the first footballer to see the green light.

Who in 2001 became the first footballer to have played for England without having lived in the country?

Klose is the first footballer to score five at successive World Cups and won the Golden Boot in Germany four years ago.

Eden Hazard is not the first footballer to be sent off for lashing out at a time-wasting ballboy.

Hell!" Argentina: Uruguayan model Vitto Saravia on dating her third footballer, Pablo Mouche – former partner of rival model Luli Fernandez.

Yet Terry isn't the first footballer to make a dumb foul and follow it up with an equally dumb justification.

Leboeuf is hardly the first footballer to try his hand as a thespian, but in general the transition is not particularly successful.