Everyone loves Brazil

[boyofbadgers]

Except that they don't. Maybe

Comments

[alexmacpherson]

My colleagues tell me that Ronaldo is now fat! Like Serena Williams!

Why are so many football players called Ronaldo?

[boyofbadgers]

Fat and slow. Last night's commentators were taking a great deal of pleasure in devising new and ever more rubbish ways of referring to Ronaldo's lack of athleticism.

[catsgomiaow]

"He's taken a few too many trips to Ronaldo McDonaldo's" etc etc?

[boyofbadgers]

That would have been a five-star comment compared to some of what they said. Motty and Lawrenson don't quite have yr mad subbing skills, innit?

[bengraham]

Why are so many football players called Ronaldo?It's not their real names. If you want to be taken seriously as a Brazilian footballer, then you have to have a nickname

[tansu]

I like the nicknames very much. (Cafu has a great derivation behind it, it being short for the name of a past Brazil player who today's Cafu was said to play a bit like when he was younger. Like if we called Rio Ferdinand "Bobby" because when he was a kid people said he could be the next Bobby Moore.)

England should follow suit and have "Lamps" "Becks" "Stevie G" etc on their shirts.

(yes of course this is a stupid thing to say because as you rightly point out it's due to an aspect of Brazilian culture which doesn't really exist in English culture)