The Strangest & Funniest Football Player Names
A list of our favourite names from the world of football...
Funniest Football Players Names
| Player | Details |
|---|---|
| Rudolf Bommer | As a kid in the 1980's, the German midfielder's surname sounded slightly rude when misheard. And you can't fault Rudolph as a quality first name. |
| Tomás Boy | Mexican midfielder from the 1970's and 80's. |
| Hans-Günter Bruns | The Goal Hanger loves a great sounding German name, and Hans-Günter certainly ticks the box. It always raised a smile when we saw his name mentioned in a West German squad in the 1980's. |
| Angelo Colombo | The blond-haired Italian stood out like a sore thumb amongst his swarthy dark-haired team-mates at Milan in the late 1980's. Nothing particularly funny about his name, we just always loved the sound of it. |
| Ally Dick | Scottish midfielder who appeared in the 1984 UEFA Cup Final for Spurs and who was signed for Ajax by Johan Cruyff in 1986. |
| Dominique Dropsy | Had many a happy hour in the park as a kid wetting ourselves that there was a French goalkeeper called Dropsy. |
| Norbert Eder | Having grown up worshipping the Brazilian legend of the same name from the 1982 World Cup, the Goal Hanger delighted in finding a namesake in the West German team 4 years later. Called Norbert. |
| Michael Gash | German born striker, best known for his stints with United and City (in Cambridge, not Manchester). |
| Walter De Greef | Belgian midfielder who liked to get into a tangle. Appeared in the 1984 Euro Championships. |
| Holger Hieronymus | Another awesome-sounding German footballer, this time a sweeper from Hamburg who made 3 appearances for West Germany in the early 1980s. |
| Hulk | Apparently the Brazilian winger wasn't actually christened Hulk, which is a bit of a shame, but we're hardly likely to include Givanildo Vieira de Sousa on this list are we ? Apparently he adopted the name due to look-a-likeyness to the actor Lou Ferrigno, who played the Incredible Hulk in the 1970's TV show. |
| Andreas Ivanschitz | Attacking midfielder from Austria. |
| Kees Kist | Quality Dutch striker from the 1970's and 80's who scored a hat-full for AZ '67 Alkmaar. |
| Abdelkrim Merry | Moroccan striker from the 1980s nicknamed "Krimau". |
| Jaime Morón | The Colombian Morón proved he was anything but when he scored in the 1979 Copa America tournament. |
| Michele Nappi | Italian defender who liked to keep things tight at the back. |
| Constantin Pistol | Sharp-shooting Rumanian midfielder, best known for his appearance for Steau Bucharest in the European Cup semi-final in their victorious 1985-86 season. |
| Albert Rust | French keeper who spent most of his career rotting away at Sochaux and was capped once by the national team back in 1986. |
| Richie Towell | Is he clean ? Is he dirty ? Is he always mopping things up at the back ? Maybe someone from Hibs or Brighton could let us know. |
| Eddy Voordeckers | Belgian striker from the 1980's. |
| Helmut Winklhofer | Bayer 04 Leverkusen defender who probably wasn't the German cousin of the actor who played the Fonz in Happys Days. |
| Ronald Worm | We've always loved a footballer named after an invertebrate. |
| Romeo Zondervan | We loved seeing this name in the Panini albums back in the 1980's when the Dutch midfielder was at West Brom and Ipswich. |