The nicks of Real Madrid players...

[Gilstar10]

I´m looking for the complete list of nicknames of the RM players. I know only this ones:
Figo= Lucho
Zidane= Harry Potter
Roberto Carlos= Gladiador
Cambiasso= Aladino
Makelele= Anaconda
Raul= Angel
(I don´t remember the other ones)

If someone knows the rest let us know.

Gilstar 10

[MadridForever]

Those are the nick names more used by the people, that i remember:

Zidane - Zizou
Morientes - El moro
Jose Maria Gutierrez - Guti
Steve McManaman - Macca
Portillo -Portigol

Historic players:

Di stefano - "La saeta rubia"
Butragueño - "El buitre"
Gento - "la galerna del cantabrico"
José Martinez Sanchez - Pirri
Redondo - "El principe"



Nicknames for the team:

Merengues, Vikingos, Los blancos

[Gilstar10]

Oh yes, Morientes is El Moro.
But I made a mistake: El Angel is not Raul, is Guti.
Anyway I will take note in the next games to have the anothers nicks.

[dmar]

Cambiasso is "el Cuchu". I don't know what it means. It comes from Argentina.

[Gilstar10]

Well, I see the Dream Team members has different nicks.
I got others:

Ronaldo= El Fenómeno (This is relly his nick)
Zidane=El mago Harry Potter
Roberto Carlos= El Gladiador
Cambiasso= Aladino
Morientes= El Moro
Mc Manaman= Karate Kid
Makelele= Anaconda
Guti=El Angel
Figo= Lucho
Hierro= Gugu

"El Chuchu" dont know what it means, all the Argentinians players has weird, funny, cutes or family-names heritages nicks.

PD:Hey ¡¡Real Madrid DEFEATED by Racing Santander!! Believe it or not. Well, in football the big temas fail sometimes.

[Gilstar10]

...and Solari= El indiesito

[Gilstar10]

Finally the correct list of Nicks:

Fernando Hierro: Bubu
Raul: El angel de Madrid
Salgado: Lorenzito
Roberto carlos: El Gladiador
Portillo: El angelito
Mc Manaman: Karate Kid
Zidane: Harry Potter
Casillas: El Fantasma de Zamora
Vicente del Bosque:El Bigoton
Cabiasso: Aladino
Makelele: Anaconda

[Trini]

Well these are the nicknames I know/hear excluding the ones already mentioned for some Real Madrid players :-

Raul - el niño,el futuro [especially common in Raul's younger days]
Zidane - el maestro,el Zid
Roberto Carlos - el cañon
Solari - el indiecito
Hierro - el jefe
Casillas - Ikerman
D Bosque - el mister
Makelele - el Monstruo
Figo - Besides the ones already mentioned Figo have alot of rather "bad nicknames" from the Barca fans such as Judas and pesetero :(.

Some Real Madrid oldies :
Mijatovic - el gomina [due to his hair I believe]
Redondo - el alma
Zamora - el divino
Gento - el supersónico

Oh also Cambiasso is nicknamed Cuchu because he resemble Cuchuflito who is a TV star [I don't know who this Cuchuflito is, I just heard Cambiasso resembles him].

[Martin Cutler]

I've heard of the nicknames MadridForever provided (and Ronaldo's and Cambiasso's nicknames provide dby others) but I have never heard of any of the names Gilstar came up with. Where have you heard these nicknames? I've never heard any fans or media refer to any of these players by those names before.

[Gilstar10]

Those are the nicks for the RM players on ESPN deportes. Those are the nicks commentators says on games by ESPN. You can check out www.espndeportes.com

[Mario]

Gilstar se nota q disfrutas de las transmisiones de los mejores comentaristas de ESPN LatAm, Diego Marcelo Balado y Luis Omar Tapia, me imagino q no te perdes "Fuera de Juego" con Víctor "Maravilla" Velasquez.

No todos tienen acceso a las mismas transmisiones q tu y yo, debes notar eso.

Guti no es el angel ni el angelito, Raul es el "Angel de Madrid"

Martin, ESPN LatinAmerica has some quite good announcers and they gave the players those nicks.




Oh also Cambiasso is nicknamed Cuchu because he resemble Cuchuflito who is a TV star [I don't know who this Cuchuflito is, I just heard Cambiasso resembles him].


Certainly Cambiasso is nicknamed after former argentinian comedian cuchuflito, but that was back in 1991 when his teammates noted he used to walk the same way cuchuflito did.

[Martin Cutler]

Thanks Gilstar and Mario for the information. I haven't heard ESPN Latin America's announvcers ina few years but both Balado and Tapia are excellent. I do miss their commentary.

I see La Liga games and Champion's League matches at a pub here in los Angeles which picks up the ESPN Latin America feed but they have the broadcasts in English. While ESPN's English language announcers are pretty good, they aren't at the same level as the Spanish langauge ones are.

But I still think ESPN's Spanish announcers are the only ones calling many of those players by those nicknames!

[Gilstar10]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mario
[B]Gilstar se nota q disfrutas de las transmisiones de los mejores comentaristas de ESPN LatAm, Diego Marcelo Balado y Luis Omar Tapia, me imagino q no te perdes "Fuera de Juego" con Víctor "Maravilla" Velasquez.

¡Epale Mario! Que tal. Si me veo todos los programas de futbol de la ESPN, me gusta ese y "Simplemente futbol" ademas de las Champions League magazine y eso. Tambien me veo por Fox sport el futbol y la tele local.

]

[Gilstar10]

Yes, maybe, but many local tv follow that nicks or just create a new ones: Now Zinedine is also "El extraterrestre". They do it for fun.

But I still think ESPN's Spanish announcers are the only ones calling many of those players by those nicknames! [/B][/QUOTE]