World Cup 2014: the tournament's best-named players - in pictures
An impressively monikered XI, who could all play at the World Cup in Brazil

Ciro Immobile (Italy)

Hulk (Brazil)

Jo, Fred and Bernard (Brazil)

Tranquillo Barnetta (Switzerland)

Yeltsin Tejeda (Costa Rica)

Boniek Garcia (Honduras)


Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Greece)
. The award for commentator's nightmare, fighting off competition from various risque-sounding South Koreans, Bosnians and team-mate Lazaros Christodoulopoulos, must go to the Greek defender, whose surname has a daunting six syllables.

DeAndre Yedlin (USA)

Daley Blind (Netherlands).

Faryd Mondragon (Colombia).
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