It's The World Cup Name Awards!
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by user Skretch22
The World Cup is about three things: (1) National pride, (2)Great soccer, and 3)Great player names! Without further ado, I give you my 2006 World Cup Name Awards!
World Cup Name Awards
The "Giggle like a 10-year-old" Award: Kaka (Brazil)
The "I only need one name because I'm awesome" Award: Tie between Cafu (Brazil) Loco (Angola), Xavi (Spain)
The "I'm posing off the whole one name thing" Award: Tie between Joaquin (Spain), Love (Angola)
The "Most confusing one name" Award: Fred (Brazil)
The "How-do-you-say...Ahh Yes..." Award: Marc Zoro (Ivory Coast)
The "Seinfeld Reference" Award: Bosko Balaban (Croatia)
The "Star Trek Reference" Award: Oliver Khhhhaaaannn (Germany)
The "Dr. Seuss" Award: Tie between Lebo Lebo (Angola), Gilles Yapi Yapo (Ivory Coast), and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (Netherlands)
The "Most mocked as a kid" Award: Jan Polak (Czech Republic)
The "My Village is on Fire!" Award: Edwin Villafuerte (Ecuador)
The "Best attempt at an alternate spelling of a dull first name" Award: Cyd Gray (Trinidad and Tobago)
The "My name is only cool in the soccer realm" Award: Rio Ferdinand (England)
The "Best use of the letter Z" Award: Zinadine Zidane (France)
The "Table Sport" Award: Razak Pimpong (Ghana)
The "Name that most resembles an ex-Vice President, but isn't exactly the same" Award: Dan Quaye (Ghana)
The "I couldn't pronounce this if my live depended on it" Award: Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh (Iran)
The "Guy who Joe Pesci would most likely beat up if there were a Good Fellas 2" Award: Luca Toni (Italy)
The "God hath named thee" Award: Ho Lee (South Korea)
The "Most over-used media headline pun" Award: Omar Bravo (Mexico)
The"Steroids Check" Award: Tim De Cler (Netherlands)
The "Can I buy a vowel?" Award: Marcin Baszczynski (Poland)
The "Hey Look! My first name rhymes with my last name!" Award: Yakin Haken (Switzerland)
The "Homonym" Award: Otto Addo (Ghana)
And lastly, The "There's no way I'm believing they're American" Award: Tie between Brian Ching, Carlos Bocanegra, Claudio Reyna, and Oguchi Onyewu (United States)
Honorable Mentions: Quim (Portugal), Ruud Van Nistelrooij (Netherlands), Bonaventure Kalou (Ivory Coast), Peter Crouch (England), Chong Gug Song (South Korea)
Enjoy the games, everyone! Go USA!!!
Date
Mon 06/19/06, 5:58 am EST
