Players named after famous footballers

Ramos

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I'm talking about players who's given name is the surname or football name of another player. So no nicknames (example: Egyptian Trezeguet) or players named George in honour of George Best.

Most famous one for me: Neeskens Kebano. Congolese-French midfielder playing for Fulham born in 1992, obviously named after the 1970's star Johan Neeskens. His father was a great admirer of the Dutchman.

Rivaldo Coetzee. South African international born in late 1996. Rivaldo was playing for Deportivo back then but had already been an international for 3 years. Coetzee has explained his dad was a huge fan of Brazilian football and Rivaldo was his favourite player, so that makes sense.

Another one: Romario Benzar. Romanian international, recently transferred to Serie A team Lecce. Born in 1992.

Any more?
 

lysglimt

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Zidane Iqbal from our U16s :)

But my favourite is Reading FC (not exactly named after but still) who currently have Rafael in goal, Pele in midfield and Puscas up front - how can that not end with promotion :)
 

KirkDuyt

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Xavi Simons named after, well, Xavi.

Most lower class (white trash) people in The Netherlands name their children, Romario, Ronaldo, Diego, Marco etc. If you're name ends with an O in The Netherlands, you're probably a chav cnut.