List of football (soccer) players by nickname

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Main article: Lists of nicknames in football (soccer)

See also: List of sportspeople by nickname

This is a list of nicknames for football (soccer) players.

English nickname	Translation	Player	Nationality
Pinturicchio, GODOT		Alessandro Del Piero	Italian
San Paolo		Paolo Maldini	Italian
Sandro		Alessandro Nesta	Italian
The Berlin Wall	il muro di Berlino (Italian)	Fabio Cannavaro	Italian
The Matrix		Marco Materazzi	Italian
Gigi		Gianluigi Buffon	Italian
Rhinoceros	Rino, Ringhio	Gennaro Gattuso	Italian
Bomber		Luca Toni	Italian
Gila		Alberto Gilardino	Italian
Camo		Mauro Camoranesi	Italian
Pippo		Filippo Inzaghi	Italian
Paul Newman		Marcello Lippi	Italian
The Prince	Er Pupone	Francesco Totti	Italian
il Metronomo		Andrea Pirlo	Italian
Trezegol		David Trezeguet	French
A Child	il Bambino (Italian)	Antonio Cassano	Italian
The Aeroplane	il Aeroplanino	Vincenzo Montella	Italian
King Kev		Kevin Keegan	English
The G-Force		Steven Gerrard	English
Captain Fantastic		Steven Gerrard	English
God		Robbie Fowler	English
Bam-Bam		Iván Zamorano	Chilean
Beauty at night	Bello di notte (Italian)	Zbigniew Boniek	Polish
The Bin Man		Neville Southall	English
Bud		Willie Johnstone	Scottish
Dalmatian Eagle	L'aigle dalmate	Josip Skoblar	Yugoslavian
Black Pearl		Eusébio	Portuguese
Black Panther		Eusébio	Portuguese
Animal		Edmundo	Brazilian
Asian Maradona		Ali Karimi	Iranian
Baby-Faced Assassin		Ole Gunnar Solskjær	Norwegian
Shorty	Baixinho (portuguese)	Romario	Brazilian
Batigol		Gabriel Batistuta	Argentinian
Batman		Mateja Kežman	Serbian
Becks		David Beckham	English
Golden Balls		David Beckham	English
Big Al		Alan Shearer	English
God		Alan Shearer	English
Big Sam		Sam Allardyce	English
Black Spider		Lev Yashin	Soviet
Boar of the Ardennes	Le Sanglier des Ardennes (French)	Roger Marche	French
Bomber of the Nation	Bomber der Nation	Gerd Müller	German
Buffalo		Preben Elkjær Larsen	Danish
Witch	La Bruja (Spanish)	Juan Ramón Verón	Argentinian
Little Witch	La Brujita (Spanish)	Juan Sebastián Verón	Argentinian
Vulture	El Buitre (Spanish)	Emilio Butragueño	Spanish
Barry Backpass		Barry Ferguson	Scottish
Bull		Rashidi Yekini	Nigerian
Bull of the Bosporus		Hakan Şükür	Turkish
Canto		Eric Cantona	French
Cesar (also Caesar)		Billy McNeill	Scottish
King Eric		Eric Cantona	French
Captain America		Claudio Reyna	American
Captain Marvel		Bryan Robson	English
Chief		Wayne Allison	English
Chief		Lucas Radebe	South African
Chopper		Ron Harris	English
Crab		Ray Wilkins	English
RoboCrouch		Peter Crouch	English
Crouchy		Peter Crouch	English
Two-Metre Peter		Peter Crouch	English
Divine Ponytail	Il Divin Codino (Italian)	Roberto Baggio	Italian
Little Buddha		Roberto Baggio	Italian
Doctor		Theophilus Khumalo	South African
Doctor		Sócrates	Brazilian
Duracell		Pavel Nedvěd	Czech
Ten	El Diez (Spanish)	Diego Maradona	Argentinian
Fuzz	Pelusa (Spanish)	Diego Maradona	Argentinian
Golden Kid	El Pibe de Oro (Spanish)	Diego Maradona	Argentinian
The Gardener	El Jardinero	Julio Ricardo Cruz	Argentinian
Crazy One	El Loco (Spanish)	Rene Higuita	Colombian
Crazy One	El Loco (Spanish)	Ramón Quiroga	Peruvian
Kid	El Niño (Spanish)	Fernando Torres	Spanish
Rifle	El Rifle (Spanish)	Walter Pandiani	Spanish
Phenomenon	Il fenomeno (Italian)	Ronaldo	Brazilian
The Beatle	El Beatle(Portuguese)	George Best	Irish
The Magician	Ha-Kossem (Hebrew)	Eyal Berkovic	Israeli
Galloping Major		Ferenc Puskás	Hungarian
Gazza		Paul Gascoigne	English
Genius	Il Genio (Italian)	Dejan Savićević	Serbian
Ginger Ninja		Paul Scholes	English
Fat Ronaldo	Gronaldo (French pun)	Jean-Claude Darcheville	French
Helicopter		Vahid Hashemian	Iranian
Helicopter		Ivan Zamorano	Chilean
Ibou		Ibrahim Ba	French
Ibracadbra		Zlatan Ibrahimović	Swedish
Emperor	Imperatore	Adriano Leite Ribeiro	Brazilian
Jay-Jay		Augustine Okocha	Nigerian
Jinky		Jimmy Johnstone	Scottish
Johan I		Johan Cruijff	Dutch
JPP		Jean-Pierre Papin	French
El Salvador		Johan Cruijff	Dutch
Jaws		Joe Jordan	Scottish
Johan II		Johan Neeskens	Dutch
Kaiser Franz		Franz Beckenbauer	German
The Killer	El Matador	Marcelo Salas	Chilean
The King		Denis Law	Scottish
King Kenny		Kenny Dalglish	Scottish
Keano		Robbie Keane	Irish
Keano		Roy Keane	Irish
Short fat Müller	Kleiner dicker Müller (German)	Gerd Müller	German
Koppita		Raymond Kopa	French
King	Kral (Turkish)	Hakan Şükür	Turkish
Lash		Peter Lorimer	Scottish
Le God		Matthew Le Tissier	English
Leicester's Favourite Son		Gary Lineker	English
Litti		Jari Litmanen	Finnish
Little Buddha		Ivan de la Peña	Spanish
Little Mozart		Tomáš Rosický	Czech
Little One	Piscinin	Franco Baresi	Italian
Maradona of the Carpathians		Gheorghe Hagi	Romanian
Bear or Teddy bear	Medvěd or Meda, (Czech)	Pavel Nedvěd	Czech
Mido		Ahmed Hossam	Egyptian
Mr. George		George Weah	Liberian
Berlin Wall	Il muro di Berlino (Italian)	Fabio Cannavaro	Italian
Obagol		Obafemi Martins	Nigerian
One Size		Fitz Hall	English
Pelé		Edson Arantes do Nascimento	Brazilian
King	O Rei (Portuguese)	Edson Arantes do Nascimento	Brazilian
Panzer		Erik Hagen	Norwegian
Phantom		Roy Makaay	Dutch
Kid	El Pibe (Spanish)	Carlos Valderrama	Colombian
Pitbull		Edgar Davids	Dutch
Pizza		Peter Hutton	Northern Irish
Platoche		Michel Platini	French
Preki		Predrag Radosavljevic	Serbian
Preki		Predrag Radosavljevic	American
Psycho		Stuart Pearce	English
Raymond the Brain	Raymond la science (French)	Raymond Goethals	Belgian
Razor		Neil Ruddock	English
Robot Rothen		Jérôme Rothen	French
Rock		Marcel Desailly	French
Roo		Wayne Rooney	English
Ronnie		Ronaldinho	Brazilian
RVP		Robin van Persie	Dutch
Blond Arrow	Saeta Rubia (Spanish)	Alfredo di Stéfano	Spanish
San Marco		Marco van Basten	Dutch
FerraRibery or Ferrari		Franck Ribéry	French
Sheva		Andriy Shevchenko	Ukrainian
Slim Jim		Jim Baxter	Scottish
Smudge		Alan Smith	English
Snake		Youri Djorkaeff	French
Sniffer		Allan Clarke (footballer)	English
Special One		José Mourinho	Portuguese
Spiderman		Carlo Cudicini	Italian
Steak		Adriano	Brazilian
Super Pippo		Filippo Inzaghi	Italian
El Tren		Adolfo Valencia	Colombian
Tank		Yochanan Vollach	Israeli
Tank		Alex	Brazilian
The non-flying Dutchman		Dennis Bergkamp	Dutch
Tino		Faustino Asprilla	Colombian
Titi		Thierry Henry	French
Totò		Salvatore Schillaci	Italian
Tsar	Lo Zar(Italian)	Pietro Vierchowod	Italian
Vishnu		Vikash Dhorasoo	French
Yogi		John Hughes	Scottish
Wazza		Wayne Rooney	English
Welsh Wizard		Ryan Giggs	Welsh
White Pelé		Arthur Antunes Coimbra	Brazilian
Wizard of the Dribble		Stanley Matthews	English
Zico		Arthur Antunes Coimbra	Brazilian
Zog on the Tyne		Charles N'Zogbia	French
Rabbit	Zeko (Bosnian)	Almir Turkovic	Bosnian
Zizou		Zinedine Zidane	French
Divine Master	Divino Mestre (Portuguese)[1]	Domingos da Guia	Brazilian
Football Encyclopedia	Enciclopédia do Futebol (Portuguese)[2]	Nílton Santos	Brazilian
Little Rooster of Quintino	Galinho de Quintino (Portuguese)[3]	Arthur Antunes Coimbra	Brazilian
Spider		Zeljko Kalac	Australian
The crocodile	Il Coccodrillo (Italian)	Zeljko Kalac	Australian
The Apache	El Apache	Carlos Tevez	Argentinian

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