(n.) An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.
(n.) The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is 30 years since Paul Canoville became the first black footballer to play for Chelsea.
(2) I wish to clarify that for the period 1998 to 2002 I was employed by Fifa to work on a wide range of matters relating to football,” Platini wrote.
(3) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
(4) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(5) He continued: "I don't think there could be a better move for me: to retire from one of the world's best football clubs at the end of the season and then join one of the world's best broadcasters.
(6) Perhaps there were some other generations in Portuguese football with more talent, but they didn’t win.
(7) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
(8) Beckham's decision marks the culmination of a strategy aimed at preserving his brand long after the footballer has faded.
(9) At the moment they’re playing some of the best football I’ve seen from any Tottenham team for many, many years.
(10) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
(11) He said: "I don't want to talk any more about politics for one reason because I'm not in the House[es] of Parliament, I'm not a political person, I will talk about only football."
(12) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(13) The 79-year-old also described the Liverpool striker’s four-month suspension from all football , plus nine international matches and a £65,000 fine, as a “fascist ban”.
(14) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
(15) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
(16) The footballer said the noise of the engine was too loud to hear if Cameron snored but his night "wasn't the best".
(17) Now serves as director of football and director of the academy at Crewe.
(18) Absolute has raised its profile with big-name signings such as Frank Skinner and bought live Premier League football rights for the first time for this season .
(19) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(20) There could be no faulting the atmosphere or the football drama.
Skipper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, skips.
(n.) A young, thoughtless person.
(n.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
(n.) The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
(n.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
(n.) A ship boy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brazil skipper Thiago Silva must sit this one out on the naughty step after picking up a silly booking - his second of the tournament - for obstructing Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina as he attempted to take a kick.
(2) In electrophysiological experiments intracellular microelectrode recordings of responses to illumination are made from single retinular cells of the skipper, Epargyreus clarus, an animal that lacks iris pigment.
(3) You always wonder how the AL skipper is going to fare under National League rules, and as far as I can tell, Farrell has never been a part of a NL team as a player or as a coach or manager.
(4) McKenzie’s concerns about the portrayal of a dying reef are shared by Claire Zwick, a former GBRMPA boat skipper and now co-owner of Coral Sea Dreaming in Cairns.
(5) Kyle Lohse has been insane this season, yet some were surprised when Cards skipper Mike Matheny picked him to start the wild-card game against the Braves.
(6) Many butterfly names are inaccurate – the Essex skipper, for instance, is found far beyond that county – and some are becoming more so.
(7) A skipper has no say in selection, he has no say in tactics, he has no say in substitutions.
(8) Fishing boat skipper Steve Yeandle was in no doubt.
(9) Costa Rican Carlos Hernandez whipped in a pinpoint free-kick from the left for skipper Durante to shade home on the far post.
(10) The ball was crossed from the left and the Liverpool skipper looped it into the top right-hand corner with a fine header from the edge of the six-yard box.
(11) Clean break England's new skipper's line on chastity: 2007 – Rio denies organising the £4k-per-head Man United Christmas party, which was set up, a club insider told the press, "for players only: strictly no wives or girlfriends.
(12) The first (Skipper) assumes that sensitive and resistant populations are present at the beginning of treatment.
(13) Still, it’s an impressive coup for the league to ensure their part of the deal and the stability it brings – whatever the multi-platform future, the large-scale TV deal is still one of the key unsentimental litmus tests for how a league is translating, and while the network executives, particularly ESPN’s John Skipper, acknowledged that “it’s a future buy.
(14) ESPN chief executive John Skipper said in a memo to the sports network’s staff members that Smith’s comments don’t reflect the company’s viewpoint or values.
(15) Skipper admitted he does not want a repeat of last time when they were salami-sliced by 15%, along with all the other – much better financed, Northern Ballet point out – ballet and opera companies.
(16) I have known Daniel Sturridge a long time but the skipper has been great with us,” said Delph, who was one of four new faces called up last week.
(17) Below is Tate Hill Sands, where the ship carrying Dracula ran aground, its crew missing, its dead skipper lashed to the wheel.
(18) Separately, a Gambian skipper suspected of smuggling 116 African migrants was detained by Italian police.
(19) Photograph: Alamy There are whales and dolphins just off the coast, and it is possible to avoid the more commercial whale-watching trips; I sailed with skipper João Vieira on the Ilhéu , an elegant 1946 ketch.
(20) Based on response to a 124-item food checklist, subjects' usual breakfast habits were classified into one of six discrete categories: 1) Skipper, 2) Ready-to-Eat (RTE) cereal with Fiber, 3) Traditional Breakfast, 4) Chips or Sweets, 5) Other RTE, or 6) Mixed Breakfasts.