Articles tagged with "nicknames"
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 6th, 2008
All 16 Euro 2008 teams have nicknames, though some are more widely used than others. Many of the nicknames are simple reflections of the colour ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Oct 23rd, 2007
With site captain Bob breaking the tragic story that the Bafana Bafana nickname for South Africa will be fazed out, it brought to mind our ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 22nd, 2006
I've alway thought that one of the reasons Brazil holds such allure around the world is the one-named wonders that dot their roster each game. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 20th, 2006
Frequent readers of World Cup Blog know that Angola is my adopted team this competition. One of the reasons why I chose to back ...
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by Harvey Morrell | Apr 19th, 2006
Die Zeit has come to the realization that Germany, along with the Czech Republic, doesn't have a decent nickname. They're having a contest to come ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Apr 10th, 2006
Footballers and nicknames go together like sportsmen and sobriquets. Or something. Anyway, the pantheon of football history is jam-packed with great nicknames (apodos)—every ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 6th, 2006
One of the many cool things about a site like World Cup Blog is that we have people from all over the world writing about ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 6th, 2006
Reading some of our WCB comments (read El Pelado's) it became clear that some people do not understand why Brazil has some funny nicknames. Some ...
