After @Altin Lala joined the board I got thinking. Lala was a real-life footballer who played for Hannover 96 a few years ago and happens to share his name with a teletubby.

Can you think of any footballers with brilliant, unusual and amusing names?

I'll start off with Waldhof Mannheim's new signing Freddy Mombongo, who really does come from the Congo and will spark memories of a certain soft drink in many of us.

Yipi Yapo used to play for FC Basel, Tshabalala played for kazier chiefs, those were two I always thought had fun names

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You have so many classics, the obvious ones are like 'Danny Shittu'. If you search rude or funny footballers names, you'll find endless of lists.

A Japanese player had a name that sounded like he had toilet trouble.

I can't recall how to spell it.

 

4 minutes ago, notts-joe said:

You have so many classics, the obvious ones are like 'Danny Shittu'. If you search rude or funny footballers names, you'll find endless of lists.

A Japanese player had a name that sounded like he had toilet trouble.

I can't recall how to spell it.

Like the little-known Welsh-Irish player Dai O'Rea?

Sometimes you get good names by using Google translate or similar. I remember being at Celtic-Gladbach with @Blackville a few years ago. Gladbach have a full back called Julian Korb. On the team list on the programme he was listed as Julian Wardrobe which is simply a translation - whoops. I'm sure there was another but I'll have to look out the programme to remember it.

There was a footballer for Stuttgarter Kickers in the early 90's when they were in the Bundesliga called Reinhold Tattermusch.

"tatter" means shredded and Musch was a local slang word in the Niederrhein area for a very very private part of the female anatomy.

We played a team a few seasons back, it was right after these match fixing scandals, and in the Kop we were singing 'Delroy Facey, he'll fix it for you', and then a couple of minutes later the opposition (can't remember who) bought on a bloke with the last name Saville as a sub. 

There's a couple that I know, the obvious one is Stefan Kuntz and the other is a Czech player called Milan Fukal! Probably not pronounced that way, but maybe it is...

Shame we are talking footballers, because cricket has a couple of belters in Quinton De Kock and Denesh Ramdin.

I bet he is @Fozzy, horrible game.

Tommorow a young player named "Feierabend" will make his debut for 96. That's the German word for the end of the work day and it describes perfectly the way 96 played the entire season...

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Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo wins it for me.

As a former geek who enjoyed RPG-adventure videogames back in my spotty youth (before football, ladies and alcohol - in that order - then took over my life), Eden Hazard's name made me laugh. Sounds like a high-power magic attack.

Tonight's reserve game has just reminded me of a player that we have all missed, Scunthorpe have a player who played tonight called Fortunate Sithole. Now that one for me takes some beating!

Why has nobody said Leicester City's 'Joe Dodoo'? Is it because he's crap?

On 02/04/2016 at 09:57, Joe Jones said:

Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo wins it for me.

As a former geek who enjoyed RPG-adventure videogames back in my spotty youth (before football, ladies and alcohol - in that order - then took over my life), Eden Hazard's name made me laugh. Sounds like a high-power magic attack.

Whereas his brother who plays for Gladbach, Thorgen Hazard, sounds like a norse god with a gun who's a real danger!!

Tommorow a young player named "Feierabend" will make his debut for 96. That's the German word for the end of the work day and it describes perfectly the way 96 played the entire season...

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This morning the player I mentioned, Niklas Feierabend, died as his car crashed into a tree... He was sitting in the back and didn't use the saftey belt. 19 years old. What an awful ****!

Tragic