Thursday, June 07, 2007

Most embarrassing player name

Franco Foda, a three-time German Cup winner with Kaiserslautern, Leverkusen and Stuttgart between 1990 and 1997 made his international debut away to Brazil in December 1987.

Obviously this would usually be a great honour, but not so much in Foda's case. He came on as a substitute with eight minutes to go, emerging to howls of laughter from the stands as his name went up on the scoreboard.

Franco foda, sadly, means "fucking for free" in Portuguese. Brazil's players may have been distracted a bit, too: Stefan Reuter snatched an equaliser in the 90th minute.

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