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"El Pibe de Oro" ("The Golden Boy") = Diego Maradona Argentina [206] "Hulk" = Givanildo Vieira De Souza Brazil [207] "Kaká" = Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite Brazil; Claudiano Bezerra da Silva Brazil; David Leonel Faleiro Brazil; Ferreira Guimarães Brazil; Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Batista Portugal "La Pulga" (The Flea) = Lionel Messi ...
The Boys of Summer [34] – From the Brooklyn years – Reference to baseball being the only major team sport played during the summer. As with "Dem Bums", usage of this nickname for the Dodgers has faded with time; "Boys of Summer" is now often used to refer to baseball players in general.
This is a list of nicknames of Major League Baseball teams and players. It includes a complete list of nicknames of players in the Baseball Hall of Fame, a list of nicknames of current players, nicknames of popular players who have played for each major league team, and lists of nicknames grouped into particular categories (e.g., ethnic nicknames, personality trait nicknames etc.). [1]
By nickname "Ain'ts*" – New Orleans Saints, NFL; rhyming play on the non-standard English negative ain't [30] "America's Team" – Dallas Cowboys, by sports media [31] "B.I.L.L.S.*" – Buffalo Bills, by detractors, acronyms for "Boy I Love Losing Super Bowls", in reference to the team's failure to win the Super Bowl in four straight tries during the early 1990s [32]
Hammerin' Hank is a pro-sports institution unto himself, and from 1954 to 1965, then again in 1975 and 1976, he went about compiling his record 755 career home runs with a Milwaukee jersey.
The following nicknames are given to a unit (defensive, offensive and special teams) or a secondary nickname given to some teams used to describe a style of play or attitude of teams at times in accordance with phrases in popular culture of the time. They are not the official franchise nicknames of the National Football League (NFL). Since the ...
When it comes to nicknames for boys, there's no shortage of great options. Check out this list of 73 options from champ and slugger to chief, boss and monkey.
List of national association football teams by nickname. 19 languages.