http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/sep7e.html Great to see the kid score and get his webbed feet wet, lol. I'm going to complain to channel4 about them not using a Pato pic of him in the Rossoneri kit.
well, why you guys only complain about Pato´s nickname since most brazilian players have nicknames? Cafu, Kaka, Dida, etc. I guess when he entered his first team, there was another Alexandre (common name in Brazil, my father is Alexandre). Instead of calling him by his full name, too formal by brazilian standarts, they prefered nicknaming him Pato, because of his small home town, Pato Branco (which is INDEED a weird name for a town). The kid likes the nickname I guess. He several times commemorated goals by "flapping wings" and in rain days by throwing himself on water spots and flapping the wings lol. He is just a kid after all ps: in portuguese, Alexandre is pronounced like Aleshandre. X in portuguese only has the usual english sound (ehcs, cs) when its the LAST letter in a name, like Alex. And when after the X comes a consonant letter instead of a vowel, it has a simple S sound... like exterminador is pronounced esterminador.