![]() ![]() Jamie, though, is a former England Under-19s goalkeeper who has been on Chelsea’s books since the age of eight. Yes, that is a legitimate British surname – likely of Norman origin, and nowadays fairly common in north-eastern Scotland. On that note, let’s move on to Jamie Cumming. With his tiki-taka philosophy, don’t be surprised if Condom comes to a EFL Championship club near you soon. He’s since worked extensively in Belgium, and currently manages Beveren in the second division. Now that Argel’s spoiled all our fun, Condom has become the butt of every giggly FMer’s smutty joke.Īfter an unremarkable playing career, Jordi began his coaching journey at Barcelona’s youth set-up. I mention that because Waasland-Beveren manager Jordi Condom was born in the summer of ’69 in Palamós, Catalonia – about 440 kilometres away from that French town. ![]() Some people say that the name comes from the town of Condom-en-Armagnac, in south-west France. Yeah, yeah, we all know what a condom is – but nobody knows exactly what it is named after. As you would expect from a guy who’s literally named Assmann, he is “considering the possibility of taking up goalkeeper coaching once his playing career is over”. While it might be some time before Fabián hangs up his gloves on FM22, you can still have a peek at his Long-Term Plans. Though he never quite reached those heights again, he is still going strong at age 36, playing for Defensores Belgrano in the second division. Fábian Assmann is a journeyman goalkeeper who has played in the Argentinian leagues for the best part of 15 years, excluding a couple of brief spells in Spain and Mexico.Īssmann started at Independiente, making 107 league appearances for ‘El Rojo’ and winning the Copa Sudamericana in 2010, when he was 24. We now go from a Brazilian manager to an Argentine ass-man… but this fella’s not quite ready to go into coaching. He officially changed his surname to Fuchs in 2020, which sadly means that FM22 players can’t make any more lame jokes about Argel Fucks. That’s right – it’s a typo.Īrgel is now a manager, and is currently in charge of Alverca in Portugal’s third tier. Several other European surnames have similar vulpine origins, such as De Vos, Renard and Volpi.īut hang on… why’s it spelt with a ‘K’? Well, it turns out there was a mistake at the registry office in southern Brazil when little Argel was born in 1974. However, I tend not to use profanities on Fuller FM, so I’m trying hard not to repeat it here.ĭespite the obvious ‘double entendre’, this surname actually derives from Fuchs – the German word for fox (which incidentally makes Leicester’s Christian Fuchs the most aptly-named Premier League champion ever). It even spawned this great Eurosport headline when he joined arch-rivals Benfica in 2001. Many of us were making quips about Argel’s surname way back on Championship Manager 99/00, when he was playing at centre-half for Porto. We start with one of THE iconic names in FM history. Any name that sounds very suggestive in English probably means something perfectly innocent in its native language… I’ll tell the tales of the players behind the names, and even explain some of their origins. Today, I’ll be looking at some of the more unusual names you can find on FM22. Many of these can even be passed onto newly-generated players, so the possibilities for amusing names are truly endless. There are over 600,000 people in the Football Manager database, so there are bound to be plenty of weird, wacky and wonderful names. And as that very real Championship Manager advert from 1996 shows, the Premier League used to be full of innuendo! Now for something completely different here on Fuller FM!įootball has had its fair share of amusing monikers over the years – from the 19th-century England forward Harry Daft to the aptly-named Celtic flop Rafael Scheidt, via the iconic Paraguayan right-back Chiqui Arce. This was an actual advert for Championship Manager 96/97 – and all those names belonged to actual Premier League players! ![]()
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