football career

collocation in English

meaningsoffootballandcareer

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football
noun
uk
/ˈfʊt.bɔːl/us
/ˈfʊt.bɑːl/
UK
a game played between two teams of eleven people, where each team tries to win by kicking a ball into the other ...
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career
adjective[before noun]
uk
/kəˈrɪər/us
/kəˈrɪr/
having a job or position as part of the career that you are trained for and are normally paid to do, rather than being chosen for it as a member or supporter of a government or ...
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(Definition offootballandcareerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffootball career

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Hisfootballcareerwas often overshadowed by his even more famous (or infamous) partying and seemingly endless use of drugs.
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Wieman was one of the best liked and respected men on the team, and finished hisfootballcareerplaying with a badly injured knee.
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Nothing is known of hisfootballcareer, if any, after the war.
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Clubs main objective is to prepare players for professionalfootballcareer.
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Following hisfootballcareer, he worked in the automotive industry.
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The physical nature of these early games would have an impact on the rest of hisfootballcareer.
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The outbreak of war then interrupted his representativefootballcareer.
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Hisfootballcareerwas cut short by a knee injury.
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Serious injuries sustained in a car crash would end hisfootballcareer.
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He decided to go to college, however, after a car salesman suggested he continue hisfootballcareer.
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He was a starter at running back on the football team, but suffered a severe shoulder injury which ended hisfootballcareer.
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After several shoulder injuries followed by subsequent operations, hisfootballcareerended and his pain medication addiction began.
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He ended his high schoolfootballcareerwith over 4,300 total yards and 39 touchdowns.
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A shoulder injury during his junior year of high school restricted hisfootballcareer.
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He finished his collegefootballcareerwith 102 receptions for 1,272 yards and two touchdowns.
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It was later stated that his head wound did not risk his life nor hisfootballcareer.
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Already during hisfootballcareerhe started his own bar.
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Motley played in six games of the 1987 season before a serious car crash ended hisfootballcareerat the age of just 22.
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His professionalfootballcareerended when he had a serious car accident, due to which he was unable to walk for two years.
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After four days at linebacker he was moved to halfback, where he remained for the rest of hisfootballcareer.
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