To warm you up for whiles we wait for the champions league fixtures ahead, we’ve rounded up some impossible to pronounce names, each more complicated than the next. Once you’ve mastered them all, you’ll be ready to watch all the football from the various top European leagues. These are 10 tricky football names that you won’t get out of your mouth in one go.
1. Jakub Blaszczykowski
The player who played for Borussia Dortmund in recent seasons has now moved back to his country of origin. He now plays for a club from the Polish Eredivisie. Perhaps his awkward football name is better pronounced there.
2. Siphiwe Tshabalala
Who remembers him? This player scored the opening goal for South Africa during the 2010 World Cup and then danced away with his teammates. Partly because of his place in the list of difficult football names, this man has become an icon.
3. Sokratis Papastathopoulos
This Greek central defender has also played for Borussia Dortmund for a number of years and is now Arsenal’s defensive stronghold.
4. Alireza Jahanbakhsh
The former player of NEC and AZ moved to Brighton in England 2 seasons ago, where he doesn’t get to play much yet. There is now even speculation about a return to the Eredivisie. His name certainly belongs to the list of difficult football names.
5. Cesar Azpilicueta
One of the world’s best defenders has played in the back of Chelsea for years, but he certainly doesn’t have the easiest name. You can honestly say that he also belongs among the tricky football names.
6. Pierre Emerick Aubameyang
This star Arsenal player has been a goalscorer and a tongue twister for several commentators and football fans for many years.
7. Henrik Mkhitaryan
You would say that Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal have a thing for tricky football names. This player has also played for both clubs, but Mkhitaryan now plays for AS Roma in Italy.
8. Wojiech Szczesny
And there we have an old player from Arsenal. Szczesny left London a few years ago. He is now the first goalkeeper at top club Juventus.
9. Sime Vrsaljko
This right back has a last name that you certainly have never heart of. He played 1 season for Inter Milan, but returned to Atletico Madrid without great success.
10. Robert Lewandowski
We close with one of the best players in the world. This Bayern Munich world striker scored no less than 55 times for the German champions last season and therefore had a very large share in the Champions League. But also with his name he deserves a place in the list of difficult football names. Did you manage to pronounce them all correctly?
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