[Archived] Longest Name(s) In World Football

[HATRIX]

The players names can be from past or present day, very long names or funny ones .

[rog of the rovers]

Jan Vennegor of Hesselink

Vladimir Beschasnykh

Stelios Giannakopolous

And for Rovers

Zurab Khizanishvili

Nicklas Gudmundsson played 6 times for the Rovers between 1995-1997

[novella]

Christian Fuchs - SV Mattersburg

[chocky]

Vennegoor of Hesselink has to be one of the longest...Anyone remember Edouard Ufarte...None of the presenters would say his surname...

[HATRIX]

Quality , keep 'em coming .

[leftfooter]

Quality , keep 'em coming .

Was he some South Korean player?

[dellinsert]

Stefan Kuntz?

[HATRIX]

Was he some South Korean player?

Nah north korean i think

[promoted2001]

Roman Pavlyuchenko

Pav-lee-ooch-enko?

[Presty On Tour]

Argelico f u c k s - Brazilian who carved out a half-decent career for himself as a central defender, but who is always going to be best remembered as the source of one of football's greatest football headlines: "f u c k s off to Benfica", Eurosport's famous description of his transfer from Palmeiras to Benfica

Kick van der Vall - Cult figure in the 70's with Dutch side FC Twente.

[Ozz]

Nery Pumpido (Argie goalie)

Julio Olarticoechea (Argie defender)

Both slightly amusing in the right frame of mind, or lack thereof.

[Nelsta]

Flornet Sinama Pongolle

[Dave S]

Edison Arantes do Nascimento

[BiggusLaddus]

Edson Arantes do Nascimento

Ahem.

edit: Ever felt like an absolute fool for trying to be clever and correcting someone who was right to begin with?

I just have.

[rover6]

Actually, that's reminded me of something I've always wondered - is Tugay meant to be pronounced Tuguy or is that commentary tact adopted to not offend?

Also, there was that goddam awful Argie who played for AC Milan - Andre Guglieminpietro (nicknamed Guly). And yes, I did have to look up his name to spell it...

Dwight Wille - the Belgian youngster who came on loan to Rovers to play for the academy side. I seem to remember that a few people found his name amusing. Sounds like the sort of thing that Souey would've roared as he threw himself into a two-footed challenge on Dwight Yorke.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Heres are a couple of silly names:

Willy Topp who plays for Bradford City & Olivier De Cock who plays for our feeder clubs rivals Club Brugge.

[leftfooter]

What about Alan Sugar's favourite foreigner, Carlos Kickaball?

[AlanK]

Vennegoor of Hesselink has to be one of the longest...Anyone remember Edouard Ufarte...None of the presenters would say his surname...

Played for Spain in 1982 world cup.

Me and my brother used to laugh every time he was mentioned

[Blue n White Rover]

Henk Ten Cate

[Presty On Tour]

bernt haas (sp) probably got a few laughs during commentary

[LDRover]

Always rememer the Moroccan Hadaoui, pronounced 'had a wee' and the dismal Bulgarian Getov.

[tchocky]

Shane Long?

It's short, really...

[Tarka]

Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira!

[neekoy]

Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira!

You can do a lot of Brazilians

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite

[ultrablue]

Fred