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Vote: Which Euro 2008 Team Has the Best Nickname?

June 6th, 2008 | By: Daryl | 19 Comments »

All 16 Euro 2008 teams have nicknames, though some are more widely used than others. Many of the nicknames are simple reflections of the colour the team plays in, or variation on “the national team”.

That doesn’t make theses nicknames any less important, but for my money you can’t beat Greece’s “The Pirate Ship.” It’s so good that Sawyer from Lost could have come up with it.

All sixteen nicknames are after the jump, and you can vote for your favourite in the poll at the bottom.

Austria – Wunderteam (Wonder Team – though not since World War II)

Croatia – Vatreni (The Fiery Ones)

Czech Republic – Lokomotiva (The Locomotive)

France – Les Bleus (The Blues)

Germany – Die Nationalelf (The National Eleven)

Greece – To Peiratiko (The Pirate Ship)

Italy – Azzurri (Blues)

Netherlands – Oranje (Orange)

Poland – Bialo-Czerwoni (White-Reds)

Portugal – Selecção das Quinas (National Team of the Five)

Romania – Tricolorii (The Tricolours)

Russia – Sbornaya (Selection)

Spain – La Furia Roja (The Red Fury)

Sweden – Blågult (Blueyellow)

Switzerland – Nati (The Nats – short for Nationals)

Turkey – Ay Yıldızlılar (Crescent Stars)

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Comments

By anonymous | June 6th, 2008 at 7:38 am

‘la furia roja’ sounds so fierce!

By James | June 6th, 2008 at 8:26 am

Definently Spain’s! It sounds like its gonna pop out and punch someone in the face.

Posted from United States

By Nishit | June 6th, 2008 at 8:31 am

Czech Republic, Turkey and of course, Spain! Viva La Furya Roja!
Cheers!
http://www.troopersblog.blogspot.com

Posted from India

By Drabik | June 6th, 2008 at 8:36 am

Croatia – the fiery ones! Many boring ones there, orange, the blues, white-reds

the pirate ship, fiery ones and the red fury all sound cool tho!

Posted from United Kingdom

By Rob | June 6th, 2008 at 8:40 am

Unfortunatly like the kit one everyone will just vote for thier favourite team regardless after a while.

Can’t beat Croatia’s though, Greece a close second, and Spain third.

Posted from United Kingdom

By anonymous | June 6th, 2008 at 8:54 am

actually yeah Croatia’s is pretty cool

By augie | June 6th, 2008 at 9:31 am

it’s got be to be the Portugues one I’m afraid.
just for the simple fact that it is not a made up one, it’s all about history.
if you don’t know what it means try to cultivate yourself.

Posted from United States

By Mona | June 6th, 2008 at 9:55 am

I’m loving the Jack Sawyer picture ha.

Posted from United States

By Mona | June 6th, 2008 at 9:56 am

Did I just say Jack Sawyer? hahah I miss LOST but I mean just Sawyer. Jack wins though at everything.
Spain’s nickname is just fierce and Croatia’s comes close but I’d rather choose Greece’s instead.

Posted from United States

By Weston | June 6th, 2008 at 10:38 am

c’mon, i cant possibly be the only one who thinks that the wunderteam is the best nickname!!! it says “1 votes” and you know its pretty sad when the votes is plural, bet the number is not. (where your host team spirit?)

Posted from United States

By john | June 6th, 2008 at 10:44 am

Viva la Furia Roja!! But I kind of like “the fiery ones” too. I keep thinking of it in the context of a sentence, as in “And he passes it to the FIERY ONE!”

So Croatia gets honorable mention, in my book.

By tasikisme | June 6th, 2008 at 10:45 am

“the Pirate Ship” is the best nickname. Go..Greece..

Posted from Germany

By Mauro | June 6th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

La Furia Roja, is the coolest one. It makes sense because of the color from the flag. The others, other than Croatia’s or Greece’s, seem a little boring and expected. Except for Italy. Where the hell is the blue in their flag?

Posted from United States

By Baz | June 6th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

Definately the portuguese one

it really relates to not even the history of football in the country, but the history of the country itself, relating back to king afonso defeating the moors

Posted from Australia