Super cool footballers names

[London_Calling]

Bastian Schweinsteiger

Think it translates as bastian 'pig mounter'

And if it doesn't, it should.

 

[Maggot]

Nwankwo Kanu - it's funny how commentators never use his first name.

 

[pastieburt]

clint easton.

 

[chazegee]

Turdo.

 

[rekil]

Nacho Novo.

Seth Trembly.

 

[co-op]

I always liked the fact that there was a player called John Collins and another called Collins John.

Reminisicent of the great Jim Leighton/Leighton James overlap from back in the '70s.

 

[imposs1904]

QPR's Hogan Ephraim. He sounds like he transferred from a Charles Dickens novel.

 

[rekil]

Dame N'Doye and Buttons Papadopoulos from Pantothinaikos.

 

[spacemonkey]

I'm surprised that the wonderfully named Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank and of course Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink!

Or Jimmy Floyd Cashinthebank as he's lovingly called at Cardiff.

I like Ruel Fox.

 

[London_Calling]

Lee Trundle, of course.

 

[Kenny Vermouth]

Zinedine Kilbane

Genius.

 

[Augie March]

Jimmy Floyd Cashinthebank

 

[Kenny Vermouth]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned them yet, but there was Romeo Zondervan at Ipswich and Rueben Agboola at Southampton.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/images/2005/02/14/romeo_zondervan_1991_400x300.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/hampshire/content/images/2005/12/08/gallery29_470x300.jpg

 

[rekil]

Lenny. Palmeiras striker.

 

[quimcunx]

How about the Portugese goalkeeper called Quim?

*giggles*

Perfectly good name.

 

[Gingerman]

Stefan Kuntz, Uwe Fuchs and Nwankwo Kanu should be mentioned.

England v Germany at Euro 96,Alan Hansen " Germany have only got Kuntz up front " ,Didier Six was another one with a great name,I remember the RTE commintator calling him Didier Sex at the 1982 World cup finals.

 

[asbestos]

You'll be hearing plenty about this lad soon:

Nile Ranger

 

[The Unseen]

Stefano Eranio of Derby County fame, Paulo Wanchope, Stefan Schnoor, Spencer Prior, Mart POOOOOOM.

Others...???

Paulo Di Canio (always liked the chant West Ham had for him)

personal fave...Junior Agogo

 

[isitme]

Socrates
Julio Cesar
Schillaci (cos at school you could go Skill - Skill achi )
Faustino Asprilla

I remember when Cameroon used to get to the world Cup they had a player whose first name was Doctor

props to Titus Bramble for having a 500 year old first same as well, people used to sing 'there's only one Titus Bramble' of course there fucking is lol

 

[asbestos]

^ Mentioning ex-Newcastle players, do you remember Brian Pinas?

 

[isitme]

the name rings a bell...

 

[CherryRipe]

^ Mentioning ex-Newcastle players, do you remember Brian Pinas?

Don't remember him, but do you remember Wesley Saunders. Got done shop lifting a pair of gloves.

Sunday Oliseh (??) was one of my favourite names, a cracking player aswell.

 

[starfish]

Jorge Luis Brown, scorer for Argentina in 1986 World Cup Final.

 

[1927]

Carlos Edwards always makes me smile when I hear his name! Don't know why tho, just does.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Exodus Geohaghan.

 

[souljacker]

props to Titus Bramble for having a 500 year old first same as well,

He's got a brother called Tesfaye Bramble.

I've always liked Vasilly Rats. It's a name that can only be said in a commentators voice.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Kazenga Lua Lua
Sherman Cardenas
Lukas Podolski
Romario
Branco
Alessandro Del Piero
Bruno De Gradi
Mirandinha
Shay Given
Jay Jay Okocha
Gabriel Batistuta

 

[Refused as fuck]

Haris Vučkić
Ariel Ortega
Giorgio Chiellini
Martin Martinez
Roberto Stallone
Anthony Vanden Borre

 

[Mungy]

On footymanager a couple years ago there was a player called Chayapit Kuntavorn. Dunno if he is/was real or not.

 

[Mr Moose]

Hammarby in Stockholm (BAJEN!) had a Brazilian player called 'Elvis' for a while.

You have to love Bernt Haas formerly of WBA and Sunderland though.