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From: jvazquez on 1 Jul 2010 14:05
On 1 jul, 13:48, Don speaks the truth <don200...(a)rediffmail.com>
wrote:

> I read today though that Maradona is a spanish name. Its strange coz
> it sounds
> so Italian and i was thinking all the time though that he is Italian.
> The origin though
> traces itself to North of Spain. So i assume it could be a surname in
> the borders of Italy and Spain.
>

No borders between Italy and Spain.

No "terrestrial borders" anyway, but you cand find a social
relationships between both countries.

Particularly in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Naples and Sicily,
whom Alfonso V de Aragon was king) and in Venice, where a few words of
the local dialect sound kind of Spanish.

JV





From: jvazquez on 1 Jul 2010 14:07
On 1 jul, 14:08, Clément <lcmello.lis...(a)terra.com.br> wrote:
>
> Hehe. I though of creating a "Slave of Peace" alias for me. Got beaten to
> it. =)
>
> Abra o,
>
> Luiz Mello

Actually, we are very few in this group, with a lot of aliases *LOL*.

Millivella should run a competition somehow on this matter.

JV

From: Diabolik on 1 Jul 2010 20:53

"Futbolmetrix" <futbolmetrix(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:i0ikn1$811$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> "Don speaks the truth" <don2006ka(a)rediffmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4df3eb29-4a66-4875-bfe6-6e032510cc67(a)g19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...
>
>> What i am liking though is that this world cup i am seeing people of
>> French origin in South American sides like Diego Forlan.
>
> Forlan is almost surely of Italian origin. Forlan or Furlan is a fairly
> common name in Northeastern Italy, means "from Friuli (the region in the
> Northeast of Italy, where Udine is). Some famous "furlans": Bearzot, Zoff
> and Capello.

That's what I thought, (Furlan = Veneto) but I think it might be Spanish.




From: Don speaks the truth on 2 Jul 2010 02:22
On Jul 1, 10:53 pm, "Futbolmetrix" <futbolmet...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Don speaks the truth" <don200...(a)rediffmail.com> wrote in messagenews:4df3eb29-4a66-4875-bfe6-6e032510cc67(a)g19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...
>
> > What i am liking though is that this world cup i am seeing people of
> > French origin in South American sides like Diego Forlan.
>
> Forlan is almost surely of Italian origin. Forlan or Furlan is a fairly
> common name in Northeastern Italy, means "from Friuli (the region in the
> Northeast of Italy, where Udine is). Some famous "furlans": Bearzot, Zoff
> and Capello.
>
> D

Got this today from the net.

Furlan
Last name origin & meaning:

Slovenian and Italian (Venetia): ethnic name for someone from Friuli
(Slovenian name Furlanija), or for a person of Friulian origin, from
the medieval Latin adjective furlanus.


Also read that Diego Forlan is son of Pablo Forlan Lamarque, an
uruguyan footballer, and Lamarque is a surname of French origin. But
at the same time, the full name of Diego Forlan is Diego Martín Forlán
Corazo and Corazo is definitely of Spanish origin.

So definitely Diego Forlan looks to be of mixed French and Spanish
descent.


Don



From: Mirobaldo on 2 Jul 2010 14:04
Il 30/06/2010 22:31, Don speaks the truth ha scritto:
> We know that lot of Italians, some French and many East Germans too
> migrated to the South Americas aprt from the widely beleived Spanish
> and Portuguese only.
>
>
> Wanted to know if Messi is an Italian name..he also dosen't seem to
> have any Red Indian blood and looks quiet European....Maradona was he
> Italian too? Uruguay has Cavani who is clearly Italian and Forlan who
> is French. There is a Vidal too in one of the South American sides and
> shows that French origin players are also making their presence felt
> in the Latin American sides...Suarez looks like a Red Indian but
> Forlan and Cavani look perfectly European to me....most of the Spanish
> origin players look mixed with Red Indian blood but the French and
> italians have maintained their community identity well despite living
> in Latin America for generations...
>
> Don

Around 60% of the total Argentinian population have some degree of
Italian descent.

Argentinian players with an italian name are: De Michelis, Bolatti, Di
Maria, Pastore, Messi, Palermo and Milito. Maradona has the
Great-Granfather from a Dalmatian island, now Croathia but at the time
probably Italian territory

The Uruguay team has players with an italian family name too:

Fucile, Scotti, Gargano and Cavani. Probably Lugano too.

Forl�n could be the mispelled italian name Furlan, very Common in
northen Italy


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