Players' names, nicknames meanings

I'm sure that's not all. How is it in your countries? In Brazil it should be quite common right? players use their nicknames.

And btw I have absolutely no idea what can Możdżonek mean ?

Dmitriy Muserskiy has a nickname "Malysh" wich means "tiny" or "baby"

for others it's not windespread here....though, when they speak of Sergey Tetyukhin and Vadim Khamutskikh as a team, they're called "Vadik and Tyutik" )) Tyutik sounds funny xD

Małysz in Poland mean only one?

Dick Kooy?

Really cool thread,chrison!
Kurek means something completely different in Bulgarian,though,lol
May be one of the other Bulgarians on the site will write it ?

in Russian means chicken, in Bulgarian means Dick Cheney

Tyutik! That's... cute.

"in Bulgarian means Dick Cheney" LOL ?

in Russian means chicken

raylight, what are you talking about?
i see nothing meaning "chicken" in russian...

Курица - не птица

Nie podoba mi się ta cenzura, żygadło - żygać - vomiting its true

Żygadło / Żygać - vomiting

raylight, i know what russian for "chicken" is, i mean i see no name which has anything to do with курица.... what name do you mean?

Kurek - Kurica ?

ou, well, if you think so..... xD

Radek Wnuk - "Wnuk" is a grandson.
Karol Kłos - "Kłos" spike, ear (of corn)

Fabian Drzyzga - it's like "drzazga" which means splinter(google translate)
Mariusz Wlazły - "wlazły" we can translate like "(some girls) entered on something"
Paweł Rusek - "rusek" means russian
Paweł Zagumny "Guma" - rubber/gum
Arkadiusz Gołaś - "gołaś?" in dialect we can translate as "are you naked?"
Lloy Ball - ball
Riley Salmon - salmon
Grzegorz Pająk - "pająk" is spider
?

qsek nice translation of Wlazły ?

Bartman is misheard Batman ?

el leon rey - leon wilfredo venero.

Sebastian Świderski "Świder" - auger

Emanuel Kohút = Emanuel Cock or chanticleer male from hen ? (or nick name Emo means EMO style)
Branislav Skladaný = Branislav accordion or sandwich ?
Some surname in Slovakia is similar like Gruska but we have Hruška ? equal pear
Lukáš Diviš = nickname is Divoch = means barbarian (sometimes play like barbarian ?)
Michal Masný = means oily, but only not gramatical right, because gramatic right is Mastný, but many Slovakian say masný. You are so oily e.g. (masný = fattily)
Martin Sopko = nickname is Sopel = snot (water from nose), or Sopel Slovakian saying a little children e.g. sopel or sopliak ?
Martin Nemec = Martin German
Martin Repák = repák means alcohol from tournip ?

taduch Drobek means a bread-crumb right ? ? very very very little piece of bread or cake or something like that ? cuš kámo, aspon s niekym mozes po slovensky zanôtiť hehe

Thanks Berny, generally similar stuff to polish. Probably because of connection of languages.

Slovakian is similar to polish, its true

Patryk czarnowski, czarny- black

in polish often surnames are made from 2 word, first some word (+t can be every part of speach ) second part is SKI

ja rozumiem po polsky bardzo dobre ? 80% understand.

like Kaziy-ski?

yes, ath liek that ?

we have this in Slovakia end name = sky = like setter Turiansky or coach and his son Chrtiansky. And one comparision is really stupid, but sometimes people in Slovak says I dont understand, you are talking like Bulgarian or sometimes Hungarian, but this is so stupid, because maybe I dont understand Bulgarian language on paper, but many many words I understand in talking, so some Slavic languages are so similar, but some not. Bulgarian is to Slovak less similar like Polish, but we are still a big family with Russians, Czechs, Croatians, Polishs, Serbian amd Bulgarian. But problems with comunication is still in written form mainly not in talking :-)

Bulgarian is hard, not soft language (that's not Slavic) and has different grammar, Balkan, not Slavic, but the words are similar of course

I dont know raylight so sure, that Bulgarian is Slavic or Balkan, but this link has quite right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages
About Serbian is still talking like Balkanians natures, but they are still slavic right? So maybe internet is finally true hm? Anybody agree with me or I dont have right? thanks

The internet is also right about my statements;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_linguistic_union

Let's not forget that linguistics is not science, based on axioms, and the models and classifications reflect the human understanding about the language, no the language itself

"a member of the Slavic linguistic group". this is for me the fact
"and further development of the Proto-Slavic verb system." this is for me second fact
So you are Balkanian, but Bulgarians are also Slavic, but you say: "Bulgarian is hard, not soft language (that's not Slavic)"
No doubt about that.

Bulgarian language has properties from Bulgar language, and the hard pronunciation is part of that. Another part is the suffixed definite article - "задпоставен определителен член" for example: In english - THE Teacher, in Bulgarian - Учител-ЯТ.This is exclusively Bugarian. Since Bulgarian was the first written Slavic language, it has influenced other Slavic languages, which in turn have influenced Bulgarian (especially Russian in 19-th century). About the further development of the Proto-Slavic verb system:

1) Such system was never written. Proto - Slavic is extrapolation, it is not written language.
2) Only Bulgarian among Slavic languages has such development. No other language lost case declension, no other language developed analytically. Russian in time became even more synthetic

Since this is isolated case, the "natural development" is hypothesis, not theory and do not deserve to be such. As you know, linguistics is not an axiom-based science, therefore it reflects the human understanding about the language, rather the language itself

When we lost against Poland in final 8 feeling the pain we liked to say : "That guy Kurek will be Putek soon " ?
Just a joke. . ?

Hej Słowianie ! xDD

Kurek is great addition to the Polish team, without him they lose half of the power, too bad Trento didn't get him ?

he would be wasted in Trento sitting on bench, just like Sokolov now should go somewhere on loan to not be Stokr's sub.

i think that Skra will never let go aKurek, Wlazły and Winiarski.they all have 3-4 years contract and i think that they will play there forever;p

I don't know, if Sokolov was first choice he would be wasted for the World League, but he would get more experience. He can fight with Stokr, he has better attitude on court, if Stokr's game is bad in the beginning, he can't climb from the hole, unlike Sokolov

I think Ceco will play more this season,they're not going to sign him for 5 years and say that he's the future of Trento,then leave him on the bench for much longer,at least I hope not ?

Stokr showed at the end of the season he definitely fits to Rado's team. And he is the best in block from all players in Trento [MB's are different group ?].

Kurek can go to foreign league after next season, Piechocki said, they have put that point in his contract.

Stokr can play great games and very bad once, reminding me of Visotto

nicknames of Czech players and their meanings ?
Jakub Veselý= Jakub cheerful
Jiří Popelka = in Czech language popelka is translation of cinderella but maybe his surname is derivation from ash ("popel")
Petr Pláteník = nickname is "Plátno" = means buckram
Radek Mach = Mach means bryophyte ?

1.Piotr Nowakowski - "cichy pitt" = "silent pitt" (pitt is an abbreviation of the name Peter like Peter Parker from spiderman :D)
2.Michał Bąkiewicz - "bąku" = "insect" http://www.strykowski.net/fotografia_makro_zdjecia/Owad_zdjecie__-_Bak_fotografia_753.php
(trenerze puść bąka :D albo pamiętam jak w piłce nożnej Szpakowski skomentował tak jedną akcję : "Świerczewski puśćił bąka na lewj flance :D)
3.Jakub Jarosz - "pawian" = "baboon" http://pasimitam.pl/foto534/

Jarosz has nickname pavian? ? why? because of his crazy haircut?

proud, Радо, ако не за друго поне като българин не би направил такава мечешка услуга на Цецо, да го остави на пейката толкова години. Прав/а си. Ще играе и ще му се радваме още много. Особено след като и в националния показа, че е по - добрия вариант дори от Владо. /поне аз така видях нещата в WL/.

@Berny no, vtnklmdc is just mean.

Thanks Berny, Vesely is similar to Polish wesoły = cheerfull ?

Berny i don't know why but this is one of his nicknames
http://siatkowka.s24.pl/me-siatkarzy/jakub-jarosz,s63268/
others for example : Jarski,Rosso (przecież nawet tak na niego mówili jak Igła kręcił filmiki podczas zgrupowań ;)

Oh than sorry vtnklmdc I didn't know it's his nickname.

a na Gromadowskiego Apollo ?

Wlazły - Szampon(shampoo) cause he bet with friend that he will drink a shampoo ?

Karol Kłos "Wąski" - narrow/tight

Clay Stanley the Bomber. Cus he bombs serves on people and their faces...

el dinamita Fernando Hernandez

Metodi Ananiev ''Мечката''- ''the Bear''', this is his nickname ?

Because of his bear-like hands(palms) ?

Hah, proud, I was wondering why exactly he's called like that. ?

Also our libero Vladislav Ivanov has the nick ''Лимона''- ''The Lemon'' (They say he gets fussy like a lemon somethimes)

proud this is simply called "bear justice" ?

leonel marshall - leo - marshall means Commander

Kurek. In Serbian kure is a bad word

It's not a nickname but in polish Samica means female (but when we're talking about the animals) ? that's why Guillaume Samica had Samika on his shirt when he played in Jastrzębski Węgiel and now in Kędzierzyn it's Samik ?