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Post by gringalais on May 27, 2009 14:19:42 GMT
Inspired from watching ESPN last night.
Are there any team names you like or don't like? There is this Colombian Team called Boyacá Chicó. I know almost nothing about them, but I like how their name sounds.
Also, what do you think about pink uniforms for sports teams. There was some ad about a rugby match or rugby website, I don't quite remember which, and one of the teams they showed had bright pink uniforms. It just looked strange. Here in South America I have never seen a team with pink uniforms, although my husband says that there is a football team in Peru that wears them.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2009 14:26:42 GMT
I have always liked the Dynamo name for the Kiev football team. I was just reading that in Soviet times, it was "sponsored" by... the KGB.
I also like the name of the Istanbul team Galatasaray, just because it sounds exotic to me.
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Post by imec on May 27, 2009 15:10:01 GMT
Jokerit - Helsinki hockey team. It means "Jokers" - they have a fool as their logo... 
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Post by hwinpp on May 28, 2009 8:11:25 GMT
I have always liked the Dynamo name for the Kiev football team. I was just reading that in Soviet times, it was "sponsored" by... the KGB. I also like the name of the Istanbul team Galatasaray, just because it sounds exotic to me. Dynamo Dresden used to be sponsored by the Stasi. Re names, the best names have to come from the old GDR. Lokomotive Leipzig (locomotive Leipzig), Chemie Halle (chemistry Halle), Aktivist Schwarze Pumpe ( activist Schwarze Pumpe, SP itself means black pump but I don't know that town), Anker Wismar (anchor Wismar, W is a port city), Fortschritt Weissenfels (progress Weissenfels), Vorwaerts Strahlsund (advance Stralsund). Probably other teams in the Siviet Bloc also had 'funny' sounding names. |
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Post by bazfaz on May 30, 2009 14:43:51 GMT
Moving on to sports themselves.
I see in the paper today that India has a Women's Rugby team. I didn't even think there was a man's team in India.
And ten years ago at Dorchester, not far from Oxford, I watched the International Pooh Sticks championship (which was covered by CNN).
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Post by bixaorellana on May 30, 2009 16:37:26 GMT
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Post by BigIain on Jun 2, 2009 15:09:44 GMT
Sheffield Wednesday... I have always loved the name.
Young Boys Bern (HTs local team) Go Ahead Eagles play in South America
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Post by gringalais on Jun 2, 2009 20:15:19 GMT
One from Bolivian football - The Strongest (in English)
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Post by BigIain on Jun 2, 2009 21:57:45 GMT
My daughter has a deep love for Millionarios of Bogota. Thankfully only the football team and not the drug baron variety.
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Post by BigIain on Jun 5, 2009 19:19:25 GMT
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Post by happytraveller on Jun 9, 2009 5:43:05 GMT
Young Boys Bern (HTs local team) My husband nearly pissed himself laughing when he heard of that name for the first time ! ;D |
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Post by BigIain on Jun 9, 2009 9:24:21 GMT
I can imagine!
I have also always loved the name of the football team Vasco da Gama from Rio which was founded by Portuguese immigrants. It originally was a branch of a sporting club most famous for its rowing team, hence the connection to the great Portuguese navigator.
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Post by gringalais on Jun 9, 2009 20:20:18 GMT
One thing I have noticed here is that retiring sports stars always seem to do some sort of goodbye tour where they do exhibition games and such.
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Post by BigIain on Jul 13, 2009 22:00:05 GMT
Anthony Kim hits a guy on the ass!!
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Post by gringalais on Sept 7, 2009 15:59:23 GMT
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