soccer player

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   an athlete who plays soccer

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Questions about soccer player

What does soccer player mean?

soccer player means "an athlete who plays soccer".

Is soccer player a common word?

soccer player 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.