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Thats never a Dutch nickname. The Spanish came with it. In northern Europe (English, Dutch, Germans, Scandinavians, French etc), they rarely use nicknames! Real nicknames that is.
In Brazil that happens a lot. If a player is from Bahia, they add "baiano" to his name; from Rio, they add "carioca"; and so on. Fernando Baiano Fábio Baiano Marcelinho Carioca Rafael Carioca Marcelinho Paulista Juninho Pernambucano. etc...
A few ot the more creative nicknames: Carlos "El Apache" Tevez Lionel "La Pulga Atomica" Messi Gonzalo "Pipita" Higuain Sergio "Kun" Aguero Javier "Pupi" Zanetti Sebastian "La Brujita" Veron Angel "Fideo" DiMaria Marcos "Mambru" Angeleri And from years past, we all remember "Pelusa", "El Matador", "La Saeta", "Bocha", "Tolo", "Checho", "Batigol", "El Cuervo" and "El hijo del viento".
The one that used to make me laugh was Recoba for Uruguay who used to be called the chinaman AKA El Chino
la nena- palermo had that for awhile el payasito- aimar el ogro (Shrek)-fabbiani el cholo la hachita cebolla lechuga roa la angila el tweety carario manteca martinez la ardilla montillo la polilla da silva la hormiga diaz la chanchi cuchu chacho coudet el puma el burrito there are infinite names animal names probably all of them were used
"el perro" Arbarello. "el gato" Sessa. "la gata" Fernandez. Gato/a is common to people whose first name is Gastón. "El tano" is another common one.
A fav of mine in the 90s but isnt argentine was ecuadorian forward, "El Tanque" Hurtado. At 200lbs and 6'2 i think? He was built like a truck!
They also call David Silva from Spain "El Chino". Pavone the ex-Estudiantes forward is called "El Tanque" as is German Denis who's at Napoli. I think no one mentioned "El Jardinero" Julio Cruz which I always found funny.
I remember that they called him that because he used to be a gardener...and one day he got to practice with the team and impressed the coach. Is this accurate?
It's also interesting that in Argentina, stadiums are rarely called by their official names(that and some stadiums spent DECADES without having one), like you rarely hear people referring to the stadium as "Brigadier Estanislao López".
I lived in Germany for 5 years and my background is German and I have not ran accross that slang, sorry. Schwanz, schlange, wurst, all within the realm of calling out ones manhood, but the one you allude to has me puzzled. Perhaps it must be a Schwaben dialect,lol........