Best Footballer Name Puns

Would you say they adapted very well? Can those countries be counted on to provide decent talent for low prices for all manner of clubs?

I have to go with Granit Xhaka, he sounds so badass.

Inspired by seeing 'Jazzi Barnum-Bobb' line up for Cardiff City this evening

So I kind of stole this from r/formula1 but I thought it was a very nice way of opening some discussion. Let's see if we can guess right

What is the longest possible string of footballer first name + surnames? Basically this means a players first name is also a different players surname. For example, the string "John Terry Butcher" has a length of 2: John Terry and Terry Butcher.

Here is my attempt (length of 20) :

Outtara Kevin Olivier Robin Keiner Agustin Lucas Joao Mario Matijas Derek Luke Oliver Shannon Stephen Jordan Tyler Adams Barry Douglas Costa Nhamoinesu

Player existence proof:

Outtara Kevin

Kevin Olivier

Olivier Robin

Robin Keiner

Keiner Agustin

Agustin Lucas

Lucas Joao

Joao Mario

Mario Matijas

Matijas Derek

Derek Luke

Luke Oliver

Oliver Shannon

Shannon Stephen

Stephen Jordan

Jordan Tyler

Tyler Adams

Adams Barry

Barry Douglas

Douglas Costa

Costa Nhamoinesu

I saw this in r/soccer and thought it’s perfect timing due to drafts being soon. People can guess from the comments and you can explain yourself if you’d like too, or just leave it a mystery.

Soccerates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danilo_Popivoda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Drinkwater

Danilo is a common variation of the biblical name Daniel. In Serbian "popi" means drink, and "voda" means water.

Come on. Think of something.

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Thanks to the relative success of the first post, I am back again to reveal the next 5 teams in the second instalment of the experiment to find out which region in the United Kingdom produces the best footballers. See below for previous posts.

Post 1

Before we get back into the teams, I’ve got some changes to make to the experiment thanks to some people spotting some errors in the original post:

- Firstly, I’ve changed the names of Team 4,5 and 6 to London 1, London 2 and London 3 and Herts respectively. As multiple people have rightly mentioned, I didn’t quite nail my London geography leading to some boroughs been thrown into East/South London etc when they shouldn’t have been. This should hopefully eliminate the questions and confusion as a result of my geographical ineptitude.

- Ezri Konsa makes way for Mark Noble (Canning Town, West Ham) in London 2 due to popular demand in the comments.

- Nathan Dyer has been replaced by Nicky Law (Plymouth, Exeter City) in Team 1.

John Ruddy moves from the South-West (Team 1) to the South-East Midlands (Team 8) due to FM putting the wrong St Ives as his birth city. He’ll be replaced by Max O’Leary (Bath, Bristol City)

I have also added some maps to held visualise the geographical split of the counties and London Boroughs:

England Map

Scotland Map

London Boroughs Map

Now onto why you’re all here, the next 5 teams;

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Team 6 – London 3 & Herts - Hertfordshire and London Boroughs: Redbridge, Waltham Forest, Haringey, Enfield, Barnet, Harrow, – Population: 3,450,896

Media Prediction: 4th - Title Odds: 7-1

Manager – Gareth Southgate (Watford, England)

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Likely Starting XI

England’s hero of the summer of 2018, Gareth Southgate, takes charge of this side. Reaching the semis at the 2018 World cup is Gareth’s best achievement to date which arguably could have been seen as underachievement with the Fixtures and Squad England had. One of the more experienced managers in the league, Gareth will be familiar to plenty of the England boys in the Squad. Tipped to finish in the top 4, Southgate will be hoping to have a crack at his