Sentence examples for taking on player from inspiring English sources

Having worked as a youth coach and then with the reserve team at Everton, Stubbs understood the basis of the job he was taking on: player as well as team development.

"There's no-one else who can take on players like Tom did".

The Cowboys have taken on players with damaged reputations before now, with Greg Hardy an obvious recent example.

Arena being interviewed now and basically saying that the decisions were taken on players after strong showings in the Combine.

In Europe, this glut of games at the height of the season is known as fixture congestion, and in the Premier League the toll it takes on players is exacerbated by the rough play.

Nebraska Coach Frank Solich had been wary of preseason games and the physical toll they take on players, but decided the extra practice time and an eight-game home schedule were worth it.

By taking on players in the final year of their contracts, Atlanta, which had obtained Wallace from Portland last week, positioned itself to be about $20 million under the salary cap this summer.

When Klinsmann challenges a player like Juan Agudelo to take on players one-and-one and beat them, he's implicitly telling Jozy Altidore to learn to do the same thing.

Cole's trickery and ability to take on players in one-on-one situations enabled him to flourish for spells and become a reliable source of goals and assists.

Both took on players discarded by other sides and moulded a team, 80 minutes away from making history.

Still unclear, though, is how much of a physical toll the two additional full-speed games would take on players.