From: Insane Ranter on
They are going to be replaced by the flair of the Vuvuzela!!
From: jvazquez on
On 1 abr, 13:34, Google Beta User <wanyik...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I mean the typical entertainers like Abedi, Yeboah, Finidi,
> Okocha, Roger Milla, et. al.
>
> Eto'o is closes I guess.

'cause they have been taught to play à la Européenne. :-/

Juan Vázquez

From: Mark V. on
On Apr 5, 3:52 pm, Gabbage <gabb...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 9:11 am, "Mark V." <markvande...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> > One who I've only seen a couple of times but seems to have a nice
> > little bundle of tricks in his pack is Gervinho of Cote d'Ivoire and
> > Lille. He was linked with Arsenal awhile back. I guess he doesn't
> > quite rate with the top African players, though.
>
> I actually read about him on NYT's Goal blog a few days ago:
>
> http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/ivorian-with-a-game-to-match...
>
> Sounds like an interesting player. Who are the other non-Brazilians
> known primarily by their Brazilian nicknames?

Oddly, that posted that same day I posted this. I swear up and down I
hadn't read the blog!

I don't know of any other non-Lusophones who have Brazilianized
nicknames. That is a good question.
From: Jesper Lauridsen on
On 2010-04-05, Mark V. <markvanderv1(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Apr 5, 3:52�pm, Gabbage <gabb...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like an interesting player. Who are the other non-Brazilians
>> known primarily by their Brazilian nicknames?
>
> Oddly, that posted that same day I posted this. I swear up and down I
> hadn't read the blog!
>
> I don't know of any other non-Lusophones who have Brazilianized
> nicknames. That is a good question.

Well, there's Bonaldo and "R�de Romario", but I'm not sure they count.
From: Jim Goloboy on
On Apr 5, 7:28 pm, "Mark V." <markvande...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Apr 5, 3:52 pm, Gabbage <gabb...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 2, 9:11 am, "Mark V." <markvande...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > One who I've only seen a couple of times but seems to have a nice
> > > little bundle of tricks in his pack isGervinhoof Cote d'Ivoire and
> > > Lille. He was linked with Arsenal awhile back. I guess he doesn't
> > > quite rate with the top African players, though.
>
> > I actually read about him on NYT's Goal blog a few days ago:
>
> >http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/ivorian-with-a-game-to-match...
>
> > Sounds like an interesting player. Who are the other non-Brazilians
> > known primarily by their Brazilian nicknames?
>
> Oddly, that posted that same day I posted this. I swear up and down I
> hadn't read the blog!
>
> I don't know of any other non-Lusophones who have Brazilianized
> nicknames. That is a good question.

Radamel Garcia (Colombia/Porto) goes by "Falcao" but that is also his
middle name.

Do foreign players in the Brazilian league pick up nicknames?
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