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Funniest names in the World Cup (warning, stupid humour alert !!)

View Poll Results: Funniest Name Of The World Cup 2006
Brazil - Kaka 4 9.76%
Croatia - Jerko Leko 0 0%
France - Willy Sagnol 2 4.88%
Germany - Michael Ballack 0 0%
Germany - Torsten Frings 1 2.44%
Ghana - Razak Pimpong 13 31.71%
Holland - Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink 3 7.32%
Iran - Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh 0 0%
Ivory Coast - Gilles Yapi Yapo 4 9.76%
Ivory Coast - Boubacar Barry 1 2.44%
Japan - Takashi Fukunishi 4 9.76%
Togo Manager - Otto Pfister 6 14.63%
Switzerland - Hakan Yakin 2 4.88%
Tunisia - Anis Ayari 0 0%
Ukraine - Maxim Kalinichenko 0 0%
USA - Clinton Dempsey (not particularly funny, just an over American name) 1 2.44%
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Old 14-06-2006, 12:09 PM   #1
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Post Funniest names in the World Cup (warning, stupid humour alert !!)
There have been some belters this year.

My fave is the Togo Manager.
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pimpong for me!!
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Pimpong got my vote

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Gilles Yapi Yapo for me

Incidentally, unless I misheard, one of Hungary's players in the friendly v England the other week was called Ballsack
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Pimpong without s shadow of a doubt. Everytime he was mentioned the other day, I had visions of a Table Tennis bat on the pitch
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Old 14-06-2006, 2:25 PM   #6
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You could do combinations, like Anis Pfister
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Old 14-06-2006, 2:44 PM   #7
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What about the Brazilian striker called.............Fred, you know, that traditional Brazilian name?
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What about the Brazilian striker called.............Fred, you that traditional Brazilian name?
Ha! even my g/friend laughed at that one!
One that made me smile was the guy named Scotland - think he plays for Trinidad & Tobago.
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There is a player called :

Alessandro Santos

guess who he plays for?

Japan !!!!
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Ivory Coast - Gilles Yapi Yapo for me
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I picked Vennegor of Hesselink, just because everytime I hear he's in the team lineup, I expect to see a guy on a horse in a full suit of armor playing up front for Holland.

I think Seb Schweinsteiger for Germany has the silliest name though - it translates to "Sebastien Pig Lifter". I bet his wife enjoys that name!
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I think Seb Schweinsteiger for Germany has the silliest name though - it translates to "Sebastien Pig Lifter". I bet his wife enjoys that name!

GENIUS.

Though i wish the German Stefan Kuntz hadnt retired from international football.
I loved that guy.
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GENIUS.

Though i wish the German Stefan Kuntz hadnt retired from international football.
I loved that guy.
Or "De Kock" from Holland.
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Gotta be Pimpong

As a Hammers fan, I don't know if anyone remembers "Mental" Marco Boogers?
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Why isn't Arsenio Love from angola there?
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Or "De Kock" from Holland.
"De Cock" is a detective series :S (In the process of checking that I found This)

Although the best dutch name is Foeke Booy
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As a Hammers fan, I don't know if anyone remembers "Mental" Marco Boogers?
A 'Arry Redknapp special he was!

Bought at roughly the same time as Paulo Futre....
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A 'Arry Redknapp special he was!

Bought at roughly the same time as Paulo Futre....
That he was, and after he went AWOL he was found living in a trailer park in Holland, eating cheese out of a shoe (that's probably a lie, but something equally as mad probably took place )

As for Futre... what a stroppy boy he was, wouldn't play if he couldn't have 10 on this shirt, Johnny Moncur had to give it up just so Futre could be in the team!

Heady days, I remember back then being so excited that we were signing all these big foreign names, such as Dumitrescu and Raducioiu... the only reason Raducioiu had so much pace is that he was scared of getting tackled and ran like hell to escape physical contact...
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That he was, and after he went AWOL he was found living in a trailer park in Holland, eating cheese out of a shoe (that's probably a lie, but something equally as mad probably took place )
Yeah, found in some trailer park, acting a bit weird. Doctors declared him not fit to play football ever again.

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the only reason Raducioiu had so much pace is that he was scared of getting tackled and ran like hell to escape physical contact...
Then decided that he would rather go shopping with his wife, than play football.
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Then decided that he would rather go shopping with his wife, than play football.
And the day he did I was there, in the middle of a storm, in Stockport of all places, watching us get dumped out of the Fizzy Pop Cup, and watching Dowie's most accurate finish...

... in our own net. What a night it was
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Gotta be Pimpong

As a Hammers fan, I don't know if anyone remembers "Mental" Marco Boogers?
ohhh dont go there...Pimpong for me to, visions of him warming up at the 'table'
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**** UPDATE ****

Just found a new player in the Portugal squad :

Silva QUIM !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Italian goalkeeper is being referred to as "Gigi" Buffon. Sounds like a hairdresser.

Talking of dodgy West Ham signings - didn't Boogers play more games than Joey Beauchamp?
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