why don't brazilian players have a surname? is it because

They do. It's just that half of them are named 'da Silva' and that's why they play with nicknames.

they have surnames
it's just that 40% of the time it's either Silva, Souza, Costa or Santos. why even bother.

Don't Brazilian players usually just go by mononyms or nicknames because their real names are so common that they might get confused with other players? It's why you see shit like "Pikachu" or "Bacteria"

>brazilians
>people

pick uno

Have you ever seen people give animals more than one name?

>>75253123

>>75253179 this, most times they use nicknames or <name>+<place where they're from> like juninho pernambucano or ronaldinho gaucho

>>75253561
>be called Ronaldo Moreira
>there is already a played called Moreira so you have to go with Ronaldo
>there is already a player called Ronaldo so you have to go with Ronaldinho
>there is already a player called Ronaldinho so you have to go with Ronaldiho Gaucho

>>75253595
Race mixing was a mistake

In fact the reason is not that we all have the same surnames, but the fact that we treat EVERYBODY by their first name so we're known by it since the day we're born

>>75253595
the letters "y" and "w" and names ending with "n" should be banned

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>>75253595
>Eremith
>Alucson
>Erlison
>Regys
>Ythallo
>Kley
>Hallyson
>it's not a nickname but actually his given name

>>75253178
>>75253179
hmmm

>>75253123
Because brazilians make better sounding nicknames than "la Brujita" "la gata" and "el viejo cabrón"

>>75254676
This is so true Argie even killed himself right now.

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>>75253179
>Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior
hmmmmmmmmmmmm

>>75253595
>Pichiliu

Is Pikachu elite?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yago_Pikachu

>>75254676
who's el viejo cabron?

I'm a John Lennon fan desu

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>>75254753
>go attend a test in the youth academy
>hey, boy what's your name
>Emerson, teach'
>Emerson what, we have 35 emersons training here
>Emerson Tiago da Silva Souza, teach'
>got a nick
>everybody in school calls me Pichiliu
>say no more, Pichi

>>75254857
>62 goals as a right back
He unironically is

>>75254896
tu papá

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based bactéria!

>>75255019
he's top-tier at free-kicks

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>>75255287
>Mestre dos Magos

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>>75253595
>Pichiliu

>>75253179
Why can't they just put an initial, then surname, like everyone else?

>>75255727
Until some decades ago, press used (I) and (II) for repeated names in same team. Ex: Bio I and Bio II

>>75255856
Both ideas are better at eliminating the problem and standardising with the rest of the world, than just using first names

>>75255856
I guess that explains the Arriaga and Arriaga II joke from the Simpsons

>>75255038
#rekt

>>75253595
PC Master Race

>>75255184
> Bananinha
/r/ story behind that nickname

>>75253595
An entire country where people use their gamer tags as their name.

>>75255287
>mortadela

>>75255727
>>75255949
we don't need to be like everybody else

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>>75253595
>pc

Why couldn't there just be a global ID for every professional football player and use that?

3853 scores!

>>75255184
I wish he had an idea about his /SP/ fandom

It's not only Brasil which uses given names.

Luís Enrique, Cristiano Ronaldo, Pedro, Éder, Xavi

there's not a single surname above.

Mostly brazilian football players come from the lower class.

The lower class is like 80% pardos (a mix of white and black, white and amerindian or all the three).

Africans slaves who came to Brazil got portuguese surnames. Same happened to the amerindians who were already here.

But not any random surname, they got very common surnames (Silva/Santos/Souza/Oliveira). Not distinticve ones like Vasconcellos or Magalhães.

Plus some players got some horrendous names (mostly ended in -son). Then they prefer to use a nickname.

>>75256701
>Cristiano Aveiro
How different would he be?

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>>75255449
>joao lennon

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>>75255449
>pretinho
>profeta

Because they all have unique and beautiful first names, like Arriaga, Barriaga, and Arriaga II

>Have a beautiful first and second name
>surname is "Da Silva"

FUCK YOU FATHER. FUCK YOU.

>>75256870
Oliveira, Souza and Silva probably are common because descendants of first colonizers. Slaves and indigenous were surnamed with names related with christianity (Santos, Anjos, Nascimento, Jesus, etc).

>>75256910
>for me, it's Christian Birder