[Biganon]

No, they don't know whether the player "null" was male or female, therefore they used the pronoun "they", which is correct.

[adwn]

> the pronoun "they", which is correct

It's also highly ambiguous in this specific case (I had trouble understanding the sentence, too), and a simple "him/her" would have been preferable.

[woliveirajr]

Got it (really didn't knew this use of "they").

Reading back, perhaps "the player" would be better than "they", if it was just one player having problems.