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Little Wife, Magic Bird and Busty among fans' cartoonish cast

China Daily | Updated: 2018-08-25 07:20

Mesut Ozil is "Little Wife", Paul Pogba is "Busty" and Jose Mourinho is called "Magic Bird" - Chinese fans and media have conjured up creative and bizarre nicknames for many of the world's biggest soccer stars.

There is also "Very Homesick Boy" (Carlos Tevez), "Little Puppy" (Kylian Mbappe) and "Violent Bird" (Paulinho).

Chinese is expressed using idiomatic characters rather than an alphabet, making it difficult to use the language to transliterate some foreign names.

Little Wife, Magic Bird and Busty among fans' cartoonish cast

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