Farthest player to ball in linear motion

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Hi,

I want to disable the afar player control script and enable the closest player to the ball since it doesn’t work very properly as at a certain distance the player which has disabled keeps on moving in a linear motion when I take control of the player which is close to the ball. I created an empty Object and added a script to it:

public class Characters : MonoBehaviour
{
     private Transform player1;
    private Transform player2;
    private Transform Ball;

    public float pickUpDistance1;
    public float pickUpDistance2;
 
    void Start()
    {
            Ball = GameObject.Find("Ball").transform;
           player1 = GameObject.Find("Ch38_nonPBR").transform;
           player2 = GameObject.Find("Ch38_nonPBR (1)").transform;
     }

     void Update()
     {
           pickUpDistance1 = Vector3.Distance(player1.position, Ball.position);
           pickUpDistance2 = Vector3.Distance(player2.position, Ball.position);

           if (pickUpDistance1 < pickUpDistance2)
           {
                   player1.GetComponent<PlayerMovementX>().enabled = true;
                   player2.GetComponent<PlayerMovementX>().enabled = false;            
            }
            else
            {
                   player2.GetComponent<PlayerMovementX>().enabled = true;
                   player1.GetComponent<PlayerMovementX>().enabled = false;  
            }
      }
}

Thank you…

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