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Football Players Nicknames: Real Or Fake?

Football fans have a long-standing tradition of giving their favorite (or not-so-favorite) players nicknames. This is often a mix of admiration, humor, and sometimes brutal honesty. These nicknames help football fans connect with their favourite players even better. An example of such a nickname is fans calling Erling Haaland ‘The Terminator’ due to his robotic goal-scoring consistency and his robotic behavior on and off the pitch and while giving interviews. This article mentions 10 football players’ nicknames, some of them are real and some are fake. Can you tell apart the real nicknames from the fakes?

Is This Footballer Nickname Real?

Credit: ESPN

1. Cristiano Ronaldo – Siuuperman
2. Lev Yashin – The Black Spider
3. Duncan Ferguson – Duncan Disorderly
4. Sergio Ramos – The Butcher
5. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer – Baby Faced Assassin
6. Ronaldo ‘R9’ – Il Fenomeno
7. Harry Maguire – Fridgehead
8. Fernando Torres – El Nino
9. Edinson Cavani – El Matador
10. Virgil van Dijk – The Dutch Wall

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Answers:

1. False. Cristiano Ronaldo is simply called ‘CR7’
2. True
3. True
4. False. ‘The Butcher’ is a nickname given to Lisandro Martinez
5. True
6. True
7. False. The nickname given to Harry Maguire is ‘Slabhead’
8. True
9. True
10. False. Virgil van Dijk does not have any set nickname but is sometimes called ‘Aquaman’

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