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What's in a name....nicknames in Brazilian football

RodneyCharltonTrotta
RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,837
edited June 2012 in Other Football and Sports
Mate of mine wrote this about the use and connotations of "un pc" nicknames in Brazilian football...

http://www.thedirtytackle.net/2012/06/whats-in-name_14.html

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  • Powell Is Pleasant
    Powell Is Pleasant Posts: 1,443
    Found that a very interesting read. The idea of having that sort of nickname is so... foreign.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,012
    Good read.

    Always found it funny they are basically in the stands going "pass to the duck!" etc.
  • ScrappyCAFC
    ScrappyCAFC Posts: 278
    Agree with everyone above, good read, enjoyed that.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    What an idiot. Does he understand why nicknames came to the fore in Brazillian football? Did he bother to find out? Clearly not. Pathetic. My experience of working in Brazil, it's actually a lot less third world than a lot of snooty cnts think.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,837
    Calm down, he's writing a blog not editing the Times.

  • Gillis
    Gillis Posts: 998
    I don't know the guy, but I got the impression from reading the blog that he lives in Brazil, and his wife is possibly Brazilian. I didn't think he was being snooty, and I don't think he implied that Brazil is third world - it just seemed like he was commenting on cultural differences between here and there. I found it interesting.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,088
    edited June 2012
    Yeah that was a good read, didn't come across as snooty or condescending IMO. I donth think he was conducting an investigation into the origins of Brazilian nomeculture, just looking at their application in a short piece. eNow wish I had a cool sounding Brazilian nickname though
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,201
    What an idiot. Does he understand why nicknames came to the fore in Brazillian football? Did he bother to find out? Clearly not. Pathetic. My experience of working in Brazil, it's actually a lot less third world than a lot of snooty cnts think.
    I think it's because of the highly visible contrast between rich and poor, and films like City of God that people have that impression Morts. I don't think it is necessarily them being snooty.

  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,837
    edited June 2012
    I don't know the guy, but I got the impression from reading the blog that he lives in Brazil, and his wife is possibly Brazilian. I didn't think he was being snooty, and I don't think he implied that Brazil is third world - it just seemed like he was commenting on cultural differences between here and there. I found it interesting.
    Yep he's a working class bloke from Blackpool who has lived there years and is married to a Brazilian.

    About as far from snooty as you can get.

  • Fiiiiiish
    Fiiiiiish Posts: 1,671
    That was a good read.

    Brazilians make nicknames sound much cooler.

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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,640
    That was a good read.

    Brazilians make nicknames sound much cooler.
    And front bottoms neater
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,067
    Good read, written by someone obviously living & socialising out there. Think Morts has taken it the wrong way, but he also seems to have experience of the country & some more background on the nickname phenomena. Would be nice if he could add to the piece...I'd certainly be interested.
  • Mundell Fleming
    Mundell Fleming Posts: 854
    In a multi-racial, multi-cultural society where racism was truly not an issue people would refer to each other by colour all of the time - like hair colour or style. The fact we are not comfortable with race or colour as a descriptor is evidence that we believe we have a problem not of maturity.

    That said, I'd bet that there is more real, impact full discrimination in Brazilian society than there is here.

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