Information:  - Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal.  - The Ulster Footballer of the Year is the older of two association football player of the year awards in Northern Ireland. (The other is the Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association award.) It is awarded by Castlereagh Glentoran Supporters' Club to the player who is adjudged by an independent committee to have been the best of the season in the IFA Premiership. The award has been presented since the 1950-51 season, when the inaugural winner was Kevin McGarry of Cliftonville. The current holder of the award is Billy Joe Burns, of Crusaders. Glenn Ferguson has won the award most often: on three separate occasions.  - Northern Ireland (; Ulster Scots: "") is a top-level constituent unit of the United Kingdom in the northeast of Ireland. It is variously described as a country, province, region, or "part" of the United Kingdom, amongst other terms. Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2011, its population was 1,810,863, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the UK's population. Established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the British government. Northern Ireland co-operates with the Republic of Ireland in some areas, and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to "put forward views and proposals" with "determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments".  - The Irish Free State (; 6 December 192229 December 1937) was an independent state established in 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. That treaty ended the three-year Irish War of Independence between the forces of the self-proclaimed Irish Republic, the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and British Crown forces.  - The Irish Football Association (IFA) is the governing body for association football in Northern Ireland. It organised the Ireland national football team which, after 1921, became the Northern Ireland national football team. It should not be confused with the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), the governing body in the Republic of Ireland.  - Sammy Hughes was a footballer who played in the Irish League with Glentoran in the 1950s . He signed from Larne in September 1949 , He won two Irish League championships ( 1950/51 and 1952/53 ) , one Irish Cup ( 1950/51 ) , one Gold Cup , three City Cups and two Ulster Cups . He was capped eight times by the Irish League and scored five goals . He was the Ulster Footballer of the Year for the 1952/53 season . He later played for Larne and Carrick Rangers , winning the B Division title with the latter in 1961/62 . Hughes was a top scorer in the Irish League in the 1949 -- 50 , 1950 -- 51 and 1952 -- 1953 seasons . He died on 28 April 2011 , aged 85 .  - The Irish Football Association Challenge Cup (also known as the Tennent's Irish Cup for sponsorship purposes) is the national football knock-out cup competition in Northern Ireland. Inaugurated in 1881, it is the fourth-oldest national cup competition in the world. Prior to the break-away from the Irish Football Association by clubs from what would become the Irish Free State in 1921, the Irish Cup was the national cup competition for the whole of Ireland. Glenavon are the current holders after beating Linfield 20 in the 2016 final.  - Glenn 'Spike' Ferguson (born 10 July 1969) is a Northern Irish former football player and current manager. He is currently out of work following being sacked at Ballymena United on 29 February 2016.    Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'occupation' with the subject 'sammy hughes '.  Choices: - army  - association football  - association football player  - manager  - prior  - united kingdom
The answer to this question is:
association football player