Soccer stars with unlucky names
If you’ve been having an awful week, spare a thought for one of football’s superstars, Kaká. Be thankful that’s not your name.
Think about all those unsanitary images the name Kaká conjures up in the mind of the person calling him. The Brazilian-born player is not alone though. There’s a bevy of soccer heroes we’d marry but only if they got rid of their embarrassing surnames first.
Let’s go through the list:
Kaká
He was born Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite. He earned his nickname when he was a child. His younger brother apparently couldn’t pronounce Ricardo and so started calling him, “Kaká.”
Ricky van Wolfswinkel
The Dutch striker is 25-years-old. He was dubbed, “the Wolf,” while playing in Portugal. We can’t help but think about a, ‘wolf’s winkel,’ when referring to Ricky.
Dejan Stanković
Serbia’s former captain retired from international football in 2011. Now here’s a family that shouldn’t live up to their name.
Dean Windass
The 45-year-old midfielder/ striker is an English former professional footballer, who famously played for Hull City. We think his surname speaks for itself.
Lionel Messi
This man needs no introduction. The 27-year-old Argentine footballer is a soccer legend. One can just imagine the look on his future wife’s face when she’s one day told to clean up after her, “messi,” son!
Danny Shittu
The 33-year-old Nigerian footballer was born Daniel Olusola. We don’t need to tell you how many jokes he’s been the butt of thanks to his surname.
Cesc Fàbregas
The Spanish footballer also plays for Chelsea. On a scale of one to 10, we give this guy’s surname an eight. Here’s one of the many jokes circulating online about the 27-year-old midfielder.
A teacher was giving his pupils examples of gases like oxygen, hydrogen, carbondioxide and others. The lesson was interrupted by the laughter of one learner. When the teacher asked the boy why he was laughing, the young student said he’d failed to mention one gas. When the teacher asked him to explain, the boy went to the board and wrote, “Fàbregas!”
It’s lame, we know.
Eden Hazard
The Belgian professional footballer plays for Chelsea in the Premier League and the Belgium national team. While the attacking midfielder is certainly a, ‘hazard,’ to his opponents on the field, he needs to ensure his isn’t one to his future partner.
Think of the implications if the star ended up tying the knot with Paris Hilton or worse, Whoopi Goldberg.
Do we really want a Whoopi Hazard?
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