Super cool footballers names

[Zapp Brannigan]

Keisuke "Kenny" Takano, and Ryan Zico-Black of late 90s Morecambe!!!

 

[strung out]

Bobo Balde, sounds like a clown.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Makelele, sounds like eukelele

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Can't believe no-one's mentioned John Bumstead and Nigel Spackman.

 

[Augie March]

You know thinking about it, Steve Stone is a pretty cool fucking name. The alliteration in it makes him sound like he could be an alter-ego to some kind of superhero.

 

[London_Calling]

I've got Steve Stone pegged as a private detective.

personally, I like Papa Bouba Dioup. Its got a certain ring to it.........

Yep, agreed. Fav so far.

 

[Buds]

Angel Rangel

 

[Dillinger4]

Hidetoshi Nakata
Zlatan Ibrohimovic
Zinedine Zidane
Mauro Zarate
Sergio Aguero
Francesco Totti

 

[Maggot]

Junior Agogo

 

[SK.]

Roque Santa Cruz

To me he sounds like he should be a boxer and not a footballer

 

[N_igma]

Stefan Kuntz

 

[marksims68]

How about the Portugese goalkeeper called Quim?

*giggles*

Apparently Oxford had a player called Richard Cockhead in the sixties, dont know if its true or not............

 

[andy2002]

Wagner Love (Brazil)

 

[rekil]

Claudio Pitbull. Brazilian chap playing in Portugal.

 

[stavros]

Danny Shittu.

 

[mattie]

Gary Barry

 

[Dr. Furface]

Thomas Hitzlsperger. I used to like how nobody used to be able to say it properly, including Graham Taylor when he managed him, often calling him Hitzberger!

 

[London_Calling]

I suppose Fitz Hall should always be mentioned (as in 'One size Fitz Hall').

 

[alsoknownas]

Stern John.

Beat me to it .

 

[snadge]

Suprised nobodies mention Luther Blisset


The nom de plume

 

[nino_savatte]

Peter Shirtliff, formerly of Sheffield Wednesday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shirtliff

Then there's Trevor Hockey, he of big beard fame.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Hockey

 

[editor]

I always thought that Clayton Blackmore conjured up images of wild moors and medieval battles.

 

[steveo87]

There used to be a footballer in Sotuh America called Diego Fandandinho that my personal favorate.
Theres always Jemramie Aliadiere as well.

 

[rekil]

Nungnadda Wannasuk from Thailand.


actually a she, and a tennis player, but wtf

 

[chieftain]

Alan Smith

 

[Maggot]

Alan Smith

How many Alan Smith's have there been? I can think of 3 at least.

 

[Juice Terry]

Junior Agogo

Was gonna mention him. Scored the winner for Ghana in the QF.

Now known as "Pizza" in my house due to my local pizza delivery being called Pizza-Gogo

 

[erasmus]

more famous as a manager, but he was a player once

Otto Pfister

as AC Jimbo says, "teams have difficulty keeping it tight at the back with him around"

 

[gabi]

Bastian Schweinsteiger

Think it translates as bastian 'pig mounter'

 

[oryx]

I seem to remember that in the '94 World Cup, one of the eastern European teams had a player called Syrupoff - at least that's what it sounded like!

I remember me and one of my friends being gutted that he wasn't the one with the dodgy hair weave.