C++ Classes

I am having problems understanding the purpose of classes.

Is it this. If I had a football game, I would create a class for footballer, then derive multiple footballers from that class, rather than spending ages writing the same code over and over again?

Does someone have an easy explanation that I can find easier to understand? I have been following the tutorials on www dot cprogramming dot com and they can be exhaustive.

 

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You can create a class "Footballer" and create objects of it to create multiple footballers without the need of duplicating code.
Let me know if it's still unclear

 

As qprojects said create a Footballer class , create an array of Foolballer instance
like Footballer * allFootballer = new Footballer[15] ;

 

I think that it will be helpful to read more tutorials about OOP in general not only in C++.