If you were an International Soccer Super Star...

What would your one name nickname be? Example: Pele, Rinaldo, Beckham, etc...

I think i'd like to be Constantine or Julio...perhaps Drakoslav

I'm thinking Bubba...
Or Franchesco...

Vlad the Impaler

Ummm...that's a three name nickname. How 'bout just Vlad? I don't mean to steal your thunder but "Gooooooooooooallllllll Vlad the Impaler" just doens't have the same ring as "Goooooooooooallllll Esperanto!" or some other one name nickname. But you can have your dream...maybe just in another sport where they score something else than goals...like Cricket.

I hate to point it out but those are there real names , not really nick names in the true sence of the word . Over hear the nickname for Beckham ,is Cuntface , or Dogshagger. On top of that we sing a lot of songs about his wife taking it up the arse , which apparently she does. Pele or Ronaldo may have a nickname in Brazil probably somthing along the lines of GOD or close, but then the Brazilians are a lot more balanced that us Brits , well kind of.

john.

-and you've seen this occur?

Yes we all have over here, they do like their press attention those two.

Sadly, I haven't. Mrs. B always was my favorite Spice Girl, so I wouldn't mind... Er, yeah, nuff said there... Bad thoughts,BAD thoughts. Woosaaa WoooSaaaa
Seeing as she totally manages his existence, it wouldn't surprize me if she wasn't the only one that took it up the arsenal...
Spike

[Edited on Oct 07, 2003 by Spike]

I'm sure it was in heat one week, not that i read that , no , not me , but the girls in the office leave it lying around and well,,,,,,
Ahhh fuck it


[Edited on Oct 07, 2003 by preppylegend]

Sir Scores-alot or Scoreo

Alejandro "the ballskicker"

That she does or he does?

Spike

Both i would imagin, but at least David would be kind enough to buy you a drink afterwards.

Rivaldo's nickname in Brazil is Maricon.

A claim I suspect is not entirely untrue... (now that he's said he has an announcement to make before he retires that is important but he doesn't want to tell anyone now)though chanting it at him while he's winning you world cups shows you to be ungrateful at the very least..

Ronaldo's is either the phenomenon or monkeyface depending on who you ask.

If I were to choose a nickname it'd be Shit.
That way I could play on the same team as Coco (shit in portugese), Kaka, and Dudu...

Also shit would adequately describe my level of skill.

Otherwise it would be Manolo.. after the protagonist of a rhyme my surrogate grandfather used to tell me about a man named Manolo.. que vive solo.. el delantero del colo colo. It went on for hours. I should have sat down and written it all down when I had the chance.

Fun Fact: Did you know originally brazilians used the one-name nickname to avoid sullying theirs families honor. Futebol was a poor/black persons game which rich people couldn't partake in without bringing shame to themselves (kind of like being a gladiator in ancient rome) so they took pseudonyms with them to the game instead of family members.
Some clubs even forced their black players to put white makeup on before a game.

Which is not suprising coming from a country that has a words for pasty to black as night and every single solitary shade in between.

I think if it had occurred to Brazilians to quantify people in shades of Red Green and Blue and their own little designation for Hue then they just might.

Hi i'm a 23 0 67.

El Hefe.

My name would be "pissed off 'cause I can't get no love from the yankees, 'cause the greedy american TV networks won't put my shit on, 'cause they can't fined a way to slip hours worth of advertisments in:....

either that or "The Burninator"

[Edited on Oct 07, 2003 by deBreard]

Porko.

yup porko

SERGIO! ! !

What with all the hubbub about the Beckhams' anal enjoyment, I forgot to say my own soccer nickname. (despite the fact I think soccer sucks and is a wankers game)
I'd be Striker!
Spike

kumquat

Chewie "Rocket Shoes" Bomblastico

Paco, the greatest name ever.