football hero

1. 1.

   a football player who has achieved a reputation for success

   Broaderfootball player

Questions about football hero

What does football hero mean?

football hero means "a football player who has achieved a reputation for success".

Is football hero a common word?

football hero is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.