I've been picking up on some of the nicknames of US MNT players from watching the training videos on ussoccer.com. Can someone please lay out a list of each player and his nickname: Adu, Freddy: ? Beasley, DaMarcus: Run DMB, DFB Berhalter, Gregg: ? Bocanegra, Carlos: ? Carroll, Brian: ? Casey, Conor: ? Cherundolo, Steve: ? Ching, Brian: Chingy Conrad, Jim: ? Convey, Bobby: ? Dempsey, Clint: ? but he REALLY needs one...or is he now officially "deuce" Donovan, Landon: LD, Landycakes Gibbs, Cory:? Hahnemann, Marcus:? Hartman, Kevin: El gato Hejduk, Frankie: Dukes Howard, Tim: Timmy Howard Johnson, Eddie: EJ Keller, Kasey: ? Klein, Chris: ? Lewis, Eddie: ? Mapp, Justin: ? Martino, Kyle: ? Mastroeni, Pablo: ? Mathis, Clint: Cleatus McBride, Brian: McHead Noonan, Pat: ? O'Brien, John: ? Olsen, Ben: ? Onyewu, Oguchi: Gooch Pearce, Heath: ? Pope, Eddie: ? Quaranta, Santino: ? Ralston, Steve: ? Reis, Matt: ? Reyna, Claudio: ? Rolfe, Chris: ? Wolff, Josh: ? Zavagnin, Kerry: ? I'm not suggesting every player should have a nickname. I'm just curious if anyone knows any names that the players go by. I think being able to call out a players nickname at a US Nats match, such as Gooch or Dukes, is more encouraging and supportive for the player.
That's awesome. For Dempsey, I'm thinking "Let Loose the Deuce"...I guess that only works if he's on the bench though.
Some others that have been given to them by other players and/or fans: Hejduk: Heydude McBride: Bake Eddie Johnson: GAM Kyle Martino: KMart Beasley: Jitterbug - but I myself like RunDMB better. O' Brien: JOB, Red Cherundolo: 'Dolo
Hejduk used to be called "Bro," apparently from his penchant for calling everyone in the world by that name. I guess he can't ever remember anybody's name.
Steady Eddie has actually been used quite often for Eddie Pope. I've seen McBride referred to as "McHead" on occasion...
Carlos Bocanegra-Boca, Los, Charlie Blackmouth I think his friends call him Los, the other two are BS nicknames Ralston-Rolly That's what the other players call him. It's not pronounced like roll but like RALston Cherundolo-Dolo that might just be a BS nickname I always hear players call Wolff, Wolffy Mastroeni-Mastro That might also be just a BS nickname
By "official", I meant firmly established such as "the mail man" for Carl Malone or "the babe" for Babe Ruth....as opposed to, "my friend and I call Landon Donovan 'Super Donovan'.
Here are the ones I'm aware of: Beasley, DaMarcus: Run DMB, DFB, Jitterbug Bocanegra, Carlos: Boca Cherundolo, Steve: Dolo Convey, Bobby: Bobbinho Donovan, Landon: LD, Landycakes, cakes. Hahnemann, Marcus: Big Marcus Hartman, Kevin: El gato Hejduk, Frankie: Heydude, Surferdude Howard, Tim: Timmehhh Johnson, Eddie: EJ, GAM Keller, Kasey: KK Mastroeni, Pablo: Mastro Mathis, Clint: Cleatus, Jethro McBride, Brian: McHead, BMB, Bake O'Brien, John: JOB Onyewu, Oguchi: Gooch Pope, Eddie: The Pope Quaranta, Santino: Tino, Q1 Wolff, Josh: Wolfie