Interesting talk about football names: Start with "Arsenal Wenger"

Name determinism is a hypothesis that humans tend to choose career direction based on names. Empirical studies have shown that people with the names of Dennis or Denise are more inclined to engage in Dentistry, a profession with the same origin as the root of the name.

Of course this is just a coincidence. Louis Baker may not necessarily walk into the bakery (bake Bake), and Tony Dull (Dull, the verb means "relieve") may not necessarily be an accountant. But with David Wolfe joining the Wolves and James Trafford returns to Manchester City, the name talk in the football world has added a few new examples.

Manchester is a city full of "Trafford". Not only parks and shopping malls are named after this, but also Manchester United's home court, Old Trafford. With this name on guarding Manchester City, it is like James Parker standing in front of Sunderland's goal, revealing some indescribable strangeness and funnyness. (Translator's note: Sunderland's derby opponent Newcastle, home name is St. James' Park)

Manchester City's new player has become the city's second goalkeeper to coincide with public buildings. Heaton Park, which welcomed a total of 300,000 Oasis fans last month, was actually named after Manchester United goalkeeper Tom Heaton and was used to commend his contributions of making less than 5 appearances since joining in 2021. Sound ridiculous? That's right. The predecessor of Heaton Park was Heaton Manor, which was built in 1772, and has survived for many centuries. The most shocking thing about

are the examples where names directly contain deadly enemies clubs. The most well-known one is definitely Barcelona's legendary defender Gerald Pique, whose full name is Gerald Pique Bernabeu, and the last word is the name of Real Madrid's home court.

The name Bernabeu is not shameful to Pique. His grandfather Amador Bernabeu even became the vice chairman of Barcelona. It is really ironic that the number one character in the world who likes to oppose Real Madrid is the same as his home court.

The appearance of some names makes people sigh that this is the arrangement of fate. In 1989, David Dane, then vice chairman of the Arsenal club, thought so when he first met French coach Arsenal Wenger.

When having dinner with Dane, Wenger was invited to Highbury to watch the game. "He is very special, a little different," Daine recalled. "When I saw him, a flash of lightning fell outside the window. It seemed like an oracle from heaven: he is Arsenal's Arsenal, and this is destined. One day he will become our leader." After Wenger led the team to win three Premier League championships and seven FA Cup championships, Daine's fate was decided. Fortunately, his name is not "Dave Wenger", otherwise it is very likely that David Dane would have an extra "neck" hat on his head. The most typical example of the name determinism of the head coaches is Wolfgang Wolf, who coached Wolfsburg in the 1990s. This rookie, who had only coaching experience in Stuttgart kickers, stayed in the position of Wolfburg coach for five years and led the team to the league in 1999, creating the best record in team history at that time. Coach Wolf has not coached England's Wolf, but it does not prevent the latter from becoming a regular in the name game. In 1994, the Wolves signed Dutch defender John de Wolf. This time it was not a telepathy inspired by lightning, but the defender's performance in a friendly match against England, which left a deep impression on the then coach Graham Taylor.

"The month of the transfer, I happened to publish a book that described my dream of playing football in England hopefully." DeWolf recalled, "It was such a coincidence. What's more coincidental is that this club has the same name as me!" DeWolf, a strong and blonde hair, quickly won the love of Wolf fans and was appropriately called "werewolf". More than thirty years later, the legend of "werewolf" was continued in this town. Walfe, who joined Alkmaar, is the new protagonist of the story.

"It's so cool to have the same surname as the team you play for." In an interview with the Wolfs, Walfe proudly declared, "The joke I made with my friends a few years ago came true. Isn't this a destiny?" The name determinism of players usually has two positive and negative results. Spanish midfielder Salva Sevilla, who has recently retired, should be the end of his life for Sevilla, but his fate with the team of the same name has been briefly ended with Team B. The black humor is that where he became famous is Betis, the city rival of Sevilla. Tottenham defender Mike England in the 1980s also coached the Wales team for eight years after retirement.

Matt Sadler was the end of the league team Walsol. He was once a member of this and now coaching here, and his name was born for the team. Thanks to the town's central position in saddle manufacturing, Walsall is nicknamed "The Sadders".

coached Brighton and Chelsea's Graham Porter (Potter), and was also in Stoke City for three years as a player. Austrian left-back Fuchs, who once followed Leicester City to create the championship miracle, also has a fox (Fuchs, German).

In addition to first and last name, the position on the field can also reflect the player's identity characteristics. There was once a Belgian player named Mark de Man. He knew he was a defensive player when he heard the name.. Don't understand? Even his name and surname are called "Focus on that person", and he still said that he is not a defender?

is indeed the case. Deman, who once played for Anderlecht and Roda JC of the Eredivisie, is a versatile player who can cover central defenders, full-backs and even midfielders. His defensive presence, which is like a shadow, can even be achieved with the pronunciation of the name. Imagine such a scene, the opponent's players can always hear reminders from their teammates: "Someone is here, pay attention!" (De Man on, pronunciation similar to The Man on)

and some examples that are not 100% matched, but are still interesting. Former Premier League player John Utaka is also a well-known striker ("Utaka " pronounced close to "Attacker ", attacker). As his name suggests, he plays as a winger on the court and contributes 13 goals and 17 assists for Portsmouth in four years. The winning goal of the 2007-08 League Cup final came from his cross. What Chinese fans are more familiar with is his brother Peter Utaka, who has successively defeated the city and captured the vanguard for Arbin, Guoan and Shenxin.

Some names and master's style are very inconsistent with each other. The English tall man Peter Crouch (Crouch, the root Cross, means "the person living next to the cross"), who wrote "Cross" into his name, is good at feet rather than head skills. Italian legendary defender Claudio Gentile, his fierce style on the field is completely antonym of the mild surname (Gentile, derived from the Latin Gens, means "noble and courteous".

Having said so much, of course, there are some words that do not express the meaning and do not deserve the truth. England midfielder Gareth Barry has not worn the Barry Town of the same name in his career; "Brother Success" Isaac Success, whose career is the pinnacle of Watford, who is in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, now has no ball to play under the age of 30. But at least he wasn't quite satisfied when playing for Bumblebee (this time really means literal!).