First I duplicated the layer, then I used a layer mask to erase everything but the center player. I then desaturated, and brightened the original image, and duplicated it. I applied a zoom blur to the top desaturated layer, with the center of the blur on the center player. Next I set the layer's transparency to about 60%.
Lastly I adjusted the white balance of the topmost layer to remove the yellow hue and then cropped the image down to bring even more of a focus on the center player.