A post I made in the Championship thread expressing my love of the name of Fulham player, Neeskens Kebano, got me thinking more broadly about my favourite footballer names.
I have decided to omit the many names that contain swear words/sexual innuendos etc. and just list names that, to me, anyway, sound cool/quirky/different, where you just hear/see a name and think, "That's a pretty bloody cool name."
So just for a bit of fun, and in no particular order, including players past and present:
Neeskens Kebano
Branko Strupar (Super Dooper)
Angel Rangel (probably the best current name in the Premier League)
Isaac Success
Kiki Musampa
Jan Venegoor of Hesselink (sounds more like a title than a name)
Ragnar Klavan
Radamel Falcao
Collins John (for the inverted nature of the name)
Paul Peschisolido
Vladimir Smicer
Tiberiu Ghioane
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Granit Xhaka
Ricky van Wolfswinkel
Salomon Rondon
Linvoy Primus
I also enjoy hyphenated names, such as:
Spencer Weir-Daley (sounds like the local newspaper)
Gifton Noel-Williams (How many people called "Gifton" do you know? Does anyone else remember him?)
Shane Cansdell-Sheriff
Reuben Noble-Lazarus
Have at it!
I have decided to omit the many names that contain swear words/sexual innuendos etc. and just list names that, to me, anyway, sound cool/quirky/different, where you just hear/see a name and think, "That's a pretty bloody cool name."
So just for a bit of fun, and in no particular order, including players past and present:
Neeskens Kebano
Branko Strupar (Super Dooper)
Angel Rangel (probably the best current name in the Premier League)
Isaac Success
Kiki Musampa
Jan Venegoor of Hesselink (sounds more like a title than a name)
Ragnar Klavan
Radamel Falcao
Collins John (for the inverted nature of the name)
Paul Peschisolido
Vladimir Smicer
Tiberiu Ghioane
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Granit Xhaka
Ricky van Wolfswinkel
Salomon Rondon
Linvoy Primus
I also enjoy hyphenated names, such as:
Spencer Weir-Daley (sounds like the local newspaper)
Gifton Noel-Williams (How many people called "Gifton" do you know? Does anyone else remember him?)
Shane Cansdell-Sheriff
Reuben Noble-Lazarus
Have at it!