I saw a thread on the German board and it had a list of nicknames of various players so I thought maybe will list a few of Italian players, past and present. Alessandro del Piero - Alex, Pinturicchio Christian Vieri - Bobo Gennaro Gattuso - Rino, Ringhio Alessandro Costacurta - Billy Franco Baresi - Pischinin (?) Roberto Baggio - Il Divino Codino or The Divine Ponytail Luigi Riva - Gigi, Rombo di Tuono or The Sound of Thunder Giampiero Boniperti, Gianni Rivera, Giancarlo Antognoni, Roberto Baggio and Francesco Totti have each been known as "Il Bimbo D'oro" or "The Golden Boy." What are some others?
I dug up a thread we had about this a year ago: https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=185302&highlight=nicknames
Thanks for the link. I wasn't on the Italian board a lot around that time so that's why I didn't know about the previous thread.