Best sports names?

[Dynamite]

Bit of a stretch but Nicky Butt's proper name is Nicholas making it 'Nicker-less Butt'.

The Ghana player in the last World Cup 'Razak Pimpong' has a surname to be proud of. Nwankwo Kanu has always been good for a chuckle too.

[Hornswoggle4PM]

Nothing beats seeing ARRAPWRRKB Amunugama on a scorecard.

And I thought WPUJC Vaas was good.

Other AFL players - Antoni Grover, Sedat Sir, David Wirrpanda, Clem Michael, Andrew Lovett, Nathan Lovett-Murray, Rob Forster-Knight, Corey Enright, Tim Finnochiaro, Paul Koulouriotis

[Zaz]

Most of those are pretty normal =/

[Plubby]

Wirrpanda's *actual* sirname is a lot longer and more hilarious. The rest of those names are awful

[JStarr]

I enjoy Kosuke Fukudome of the Cubs, mainly due to the wife's tendency to butcher his name into something that sounds like "Fuckin' do me."

As if I need more encouragement.

[9 to 5]

Cheick Kongo

Paul Dickov

And shame on you all for not saying this one yet, Fitz Hall.

Edited August 17, 2009 by 9 to 5

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Not the names themselves that are funny, but I'll never forget the day the Winnipeg Blue Bombers released Tom Europe...and replaced him with Tom Canada.

[IAceI]

Wasn't there a Swiss defender called Bernt Hass (pronounced arse) ?

..Thanks. Just as I was getting over the pain of him leaving some 7-8 years ago, you bring him back up. Maybe 2016/17 or so will see my relieved of the hurt of the most uninspiring right back to pull on a Sunderland strip; and we had Dan Smith (who to be fair did try and murder Abou Diaby so props for that one), but still.

Edited August 17, 2009 by IAceI

[jonnycomelately]

Former college basketball brothers Scientific and Majestic Mapp

Former Georgetown Hoyas Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje and Boubacar Aw

[Adam]

Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro must be in with a shout at Grimsby! Quality double double-barrelled name.

And I can't believe the legendary Guilian Ndumbu-Nsungu has not got a mention yet either!

[Mongrel]

I did forget to mention Napoleon Einstein who represented India at the U19 World Cup a year or so ago.

[Dynamite]

"My grandfather was a scientist. He wrote a letter to Albert Einstein and even got a reply from him. I've got no idea [what the letter was about] even though I've read it. My mother was a physics graduate and she teaches Physics in one of the schools. So I'm Einstein. Napoleon is my father's name."

Bwahaha, thats awesome. I don't understand why he's Einstein because of something his mom does for a job but it's awesome nonetheless.

EDIT: Those last five words confuse me the most.

Edited August 20, 2009 by Dynamite

[Darloboy]

And I can't believe the legendary Guilian Ndumbu-Nsungu has not got a mention yet either!

I was trying to forget him.

[Jayzon]

A football (soccer) team in my home town used to have a player called Gaylord Malolo-Mukoko. He later changed his name to Jivenci Malolo-Mukoko, I wonder why...

[The Quasi Juice]

Why someone said Guus Hiddink is beyond me, considering it's an extremely normal Dutch name and not really hard to pronounce either.

Can't believe nobody mentioned Dean Windass yet! There's a former Royal Pete LaCock. There's apparently a guy playing in college basketball called Lucious Pusey. There's a goalie playing for Maccabi Haifa in Israel called Fabian Assmann. A player at Luton Town is called Mark Farthing. Lastly, there's a player in Holland called Klaas Schotanus (Schot is Dutch for "shot", so shot-anus), and I always like the name of a Cameroonian player Olle-Olle (with the accents on the e's >.>)

[hackerjack]

We (Swansea City) have just signed 'Besian Idrizaj', which even people at the club don't know how to promounce yet.

We also have the man with the smoothest comedy name in Football 'Angel Rangel' and 'Stephen Dobbie' who raises many harry potter impressions despite insisting it is pronounced doh-be.

[Adam]

Bess-ee-an Id-ri-zaj. I'm not too sure what's difficult about that.

Although I'm not sure what I find funny about Mark Farthing, who the hell names their child Gaylord?

[Hornswoggle4PM]

http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne/sport/afl/photos/unlucky-footy-names

[NobBe Nobbs]

Ugo Ehiogu

YES. I remember never being able to pronounce his name back in the day.

And from the days when I had a PS2 and played Pro Evo, Gilles Yapi-Yapo from the Ivory Coast

[Hornswoggle4PM]

Before I found how easy it was to say, Samuel Eto'o should get some credit