Nicknames: A Scholarly Debate
By: Corey | July 29th, 2009
If Someone Guesses Where This Picture Is From The Win A Prize For Being A Die Hard Reader Of This Very Blog. If You Can’t Remember Thats Okay Too.
This discussion, as all usually are, is open to all fans of any team. The point is to come up with some good nicknames for Real Madrid players, and if you feel like sharing a few nicknames from players of other teams, be my guest. We still have not decided on a cooperatively created nickname between the Barca and Madrid page for the Zlatan, but I think it will come to us shortly. With that in mind, lets brainstorm some ideas for Real players and who knows, we may get a few for other players and maybe the aforementioned Zlatan. So here is the list of players in the squad, I left out Hunter (haha thats his nickname!) because he is definitely on his way out, but included Heinze and VDV because they seem to be a little up in the air still and could still stay. Lets get down to business then.
The names bolded are my nicknames (like Mr. Bojangles, inspired by the above picture but no the answer to my question!) or commonly used, and blanks obviously mean I have no good ideas. You can submit a nickname for any player you want of course, although names like Pirata and Thong Boy will never be displaced.
1 Iker Casillas
Mahamadou Diarra – Djilla (from his Lyon days)
25 Jerzy Dudek
5 Fernando Gago
30 Antonio Adán
23 Esteban Granero – Pirata
29 Felipe Ramos
14 Guti – To Easy
18 Raúl Albiol – Albi-Own Goal (from his Valencia days)
8 Kaká – WWKD (What Would Kaka Do from Kxevin) or Jesus
12 Marcelo
9 Cristiano Ronaldo – Thong Boy
15 Royston Drenthe
Ezequiel Garay – Eazy G
10 Wesley Sneijder
16 Gabriel Heinze
37 Marcos Tebar
Gary Kagelmacher – I think his last name is bad enough
Rafael Van der Vaart – Van der Fart (yep I said it)
3 Pepe
19 Karim Benzema – Benzinho or Benzigol
21 Christoph Metzelder
35 Palanca
7 Raúl – El Capitan
4 Sergio Ramos – Gold Trunks (like Gold Finger from James Bond lore)
20 Gonzalo Higuaín – Pipita
2 Míchel Salgado
22 Miguel Torres Gómez
Negredo
27 Javier Velayos
11 Arjen Robben – Mr. Bojangles
Ruud van Nistelrooy – Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooij (His full name, lets just call him Horse Face though)
6 Lassana Diarra – Lass
Tomas Mejias
Agus
Alvaro Arbeloa
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lol nice stuff, lets see what other people come up with
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Saint Iker!
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Ronaldo: Twinkle toes. Dudek: Spaghetti legs. Robben: Bubble boy.
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Pepe = fetus
Heinze = why
Lass = free willie ( because he looks like a daulphin)
Ronaldo = hairgel7
Robben = glassman
Salgado= cruella devil( because he looks like an old female witch all he needs now is a broom)Posted from
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Very nice submissions Andres and Donovan.
Bassam: Dot! I knew I forgot an obvious one. Ill add it soon, thanks!
Im really hoping that John can figure out where the picture came from…
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The Zlatan = Tall Folk
Negredo = El Negro (I know he’s not black)
Sneijder = Elfman (he looks kinda elfish and we’ve needed an elfman in the Spanish derby ever since Cocu left)
Miguel Torres = Towers
Drenthe = Dreads
Gago = gagagaGagoPosted from
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Heinze Catch-Up
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I’ve always called Ronaldo the gelled tumbler.
Might have to rework it now that he is on my team…or notPosted from
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Negredo: Negregol
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Was the Robben picture from when he was still a transfer prospect? Or was it from one of his many injuries. Those are my official guesses.
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In my town we call cr9 ‘mrembo’ it swahili 4 a gal wt make up
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guys….are there are any other options if xabi’s hunt doesn’t work out( i know its getting kinda close)…but who r the other players who can do that job?…
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Drenthe – Mini Me (That is, Edgar Davids’ mini-me)
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My gosh Andres… damn cool names, stomach hurting now from laughing….
Fetus (Pepe) – i always struggled to think up what Pepe actually looks like till you said that.
Free Willie – I always found out what was so distinct about Lass’ head’s shape till you said it: his oddly blging forehead makes him look like a Sperm Whale…! LOL! Another good nickname: Moby Dick.
Cruella… shit…. he does look like her. Maybe we can just call him Glenn. hahahaha.
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Ibrahimovic already has a few nicknames, does he really need more?
Ibracadabra!
Son of god
Destroyer of small teams (the best imo lol)Posted from
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People!!! Heinze has left us for Marseille!!
http://www.marca.com/2009/07/30/futbol/equipos/real_madrid/1248958084.html
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^^^^^ I was about to write that Brian! A post for how bad Heinze was? Or does that require two posts? I think Corey will decide
Do you think we will get any money from his deal?
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How can you forget AcciDrenthe for Drenthe? That one is gospel is Spain (accidente is -obviously- accident in Spanish.
Gago= Gag (as in the gag reflex you get watching him play sometimes)
Another Thong Boy pseudonym is Slave (his standard name at the Man U blog). Its at once a dig at his “slave” comment but also connotes imgages of this: http://media.photobucket.com/image/mr%20slave/Minckey/Cheese/Mr_Slave.jpg
Marcelo is Robinho Undercover. Its the same person. Too similar.
I’m inclinded to let The Zlatan stay like that. Its just that we think he has to ear the “The”. Right now only The Yaya is entitled to wear the “The”.
You sure we can’t do Goldilocks, Princess, Go-Go, I mean , Guti?
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Goldilocks sounds good for Guti… princess that he is.
I’m happy to see Heinze leave. I won’t even be bothered if we don’t get a lot of money (or any money at all) for him.I follow another blog: http://www.oleole.es/blogs/fansdelmadrid... it’s in spanish (I just use Google Translate)… and he calls Gago Gaygo. Not sure if it’s too much…. then again the guy calls Raul Baul and Guti Puti.
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gago: LADY GAGO!
pepe: popeyePosted from
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I’m not sure if any of you know this but in filipino “Gago” means stupid, fool or an asshole. Coincidence?
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can’t really call a madrid player an asshole as such, but i’m in favour of shipping him, sneijder and VDV out if we do end up with Xavi.
As for Guti, I don’t mind him. When he’s on song, we win. He’ll have to take to a bench role though.
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Since when are you getting Xavi?
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*Xabi. If only Xavi…Posted from
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