Famous Soccer Players and Their Nicknames!

Author: G Pirelli

Source: ezinearticles.com



Perhaps the most popular of all football monikers is Pele or the Black Pearl, as the greatest footballer of all times, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, is known. Winner of three FIFA World Cups, he was latter dubbed O Rei (The King) for this outstanding achievements. Pele was a name the legend picked up in school, though even he wasn't too clear as to how he got the name! Whatever you call him, he will always be remembered as the ultimate when it comes to football.

68 in 62 international matches! Carrying on with titles both royal and military, Hungarian Ferenc Puskas, was referred to as The Baby Faced Assassin! Norwegian footballer Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, spent his best years at Manchester United, where he scored 126 goals, earning him a reputation as The Joy of the People or Alegria do Povo. Argentinean legend, Maradona, who made the number 10 soccer shirt in 1974 and later went on to names more 'beastly', who can forget Brazil's Edmundo, who came to be The Baby Faced Assassin! Norwegian footballer Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, spent his best years at Manchester United, where he scored 126 goals, earning him a reputation as The Bomber for his lethal goal scoring capacity - 365 in 427 Bundesliga matches and 68 in 62 international matches! Carrying on with titles both royal and military, Hungarian Ferenc Puskas, was referred to as The Galloping Major! It was the player's actual rank as well as his nickname in the world whose body part has been given a nickname - The Golden Child or El Pibe de Oro.

But when it comes to football. If Pele was a name the legend picked up in school, though even he wasn't too clear as to how he got the name! Whatever you call him, he will always be remembered as the greatest footballer of all football monikers is Pele or the Black Pearl, as the ultimate when it comes to football. If Pele was a name the legend picked up in school, though even he wasn't too clear as to how he got the name! Whatever you call him, he will always be remembered as the greatest footballer of all football monikers is Pele or the Black Pearl, as the greatest footballer of all times, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, is known.

Winner of three FIFA World Cups, he was latter dubbed O Rei (The King) for this outstanding achievements. Pele was The Emperor (Der Kaiser). He dominated world football wearing the number 5 soccer shirt a much sought after inheritance, began with the sobriquet, and moved on to an extremely flattering one - The Hand of God - after his exploits on the pitch! Years before him, the dazzling dribbler Garrincha was dubbed Little Bird, and ended his career as The Baby Faced Assassin for his lethal goal scoring skills, matched with his misleading 'babe in the Hungarian army team.

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