Can You Pronounce Famous Football Player Names l American & European Pronunciation Differences

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]I want to I just want to be funny here.

[00:00:02]Sergio Biscuits.

[00:00:04]>> I know.

[00:00:05]>> You say right like like I show speed.

[00:00:08]When I show speed got him in there, he was like biscuits. Biscuits.

[00:00:11]>> Shout out Sergio biscuits.

[00:00:12]>> I said brusqueta.

[00:00:13]>> Yeah, it sounds like brusqueta.

[00:00:15]>> What's bruscetta?

[00:00:16]>> The little like chabata with tomato and garlic. Uneducated American.

[00:00:20]>> Why don't you guys just say sandwich?

[00:00:23]>> Oh, you killed her right now.

[00:00:24]>> How could you do this to me? To us.

[00:00:29]I guess we'll figure it out today.

[00:00:30]>> Yes, I've heard some of my Korean friends will definitely say the names of soccer players totally differently, but I've come to learn that the way they're saying it is the actual native language which it's pronounced and the way I'm saying is technically wrong.

[00:00:41]>> Well, let's get it out of the way first.

[00:00:43]Football or soccer? Are we not talking about the same thing?

[00:00:45]>> Football. Football, right?

[00:00:46]>> I mean, the literal translation fal is football. But I feel like when you talk about it in English, people get confused. Are you talking about soccer or American football? Soccer is an English thing brought over by the English people with the association and they took that association part and shortened down to soccer because there was two leagues in America that they brought over. So it's an English thing but we're going to say soccer because that's what you called it.

[00:01:07]>> I personally am not going to be contributing a lot in this conversation.

[00:01:11]I don't really watch a lot of sports. I was a avid fan when I would gamble on it. Then once I had no stakes in it, I lost interest again. So I don't know a lot about soccer personally. And I will throw a fact. The countries who call football football, they are good at football. But the countries who call football soccer, I mean, >> uh, he got a point.

[00:01:31]>> To be fair, that does check out. You guys focus on like one sport. Cool. Oh, it's so cool. Oh my god, we play one sport. It's not how many sports you played, it's which one you are the best.

[00:01:41]>> World Cup's coming up. We'll see. We'll see.

[00:01:43]>> I feel like in Germany, I think most men watch it. But then for the girlies and the mothers, we always watch the World Cup and the Europe Cup. Like we have to watch it. I also watch it always.

[00:01:53]>> I like to watch big games, big matches, but I do not follow up soccer that much.

[00:01:58]Yeah. Football, soccer. I don't know what to say. I'm confused.

[00:02:01]>> You want to say >> but I I like to see it. It's really really fun like all the crowds celebrating. It's It's a vibe.

[00:02:07]>> Oh, actually to be fair when the World Cup does come around like you go to a bar with the homies and you just root for my homies team and then have a blast. That is fun. It's amazing. Yeah.

[00:02:17]>> Well, in Belgium, you know, we're a pretty divided country. You got like the Dutch side and the French side and usually we have a pretty good rivalry with each other but when the Belgium national team plays the Red Devils that's you know then we feel like real Belgians us versus everyone else you know. Yeah.

[00:02:30]>> As for Italy I would say same thing as in Germany usually guys and men are really into soccer. So they really like to watch even like small matches but as for like women usually we are not really into that. I used to watch the matches with my brother and my dad. So I was kind of keeping up with the matches and stuff, but right now we would say only like the important matches like European Cup and World Cup. Yeah, that that's all for me.

[00:02:57]>> We have one famous man, I think his name was in Spanish Maldini. He really love football. He can watch like some small country from random place in Africa and he will know how many goals was there.

[00:03:08]He went to a honeymoon with his wife and it was playing Barcelona versus Real Madrid and he stopped the honeymoon and he said to his wife, "Oh, let me watch the football match." Was this like Messi Ronaldo era? Yeah, I think that makes sense. His name's Maldini.

[00:03:21]>> I think yes, it was Maldini.

[00:03:22]>> Like the AC Milan center back Maldini.

[00:03:24]Sweet.

[00:03:25]>> But his wife was okay with that.

[00:03:27]>> Obviously, he married the right one.

[00:03:29]>> Yeah, of course. Of course. It's so he >> This is going to be fun cuz he's never seen the name. I know how to pronounce it in American English. Don't Don't spoil it. Don't spoil it.

[00:03:38]>> This is obviously Manuel Newer from Germany.

[00:03:42]>> So, his name is Manuel Neuer.

[00:03:44]>> Noer.

[00:03:44]>> Noer. Sounds Australian.

[00:03:46]>> In Spain, we usually we just call him Noer, but Manuel Noer, >> we say Manuel Neyer.

[00:03:51]>> We would say Manuel Neer.

[00:03:53]>> As an Italian that cannot speak like German, I would say Manuel.

[00:03:58]>> Everything sounds cute. So, the correct way to say it in German is Manuel Neya.

[00:04:03]And we love him so much. There's a very famous commercial. I think it was Coca-Cola. It was this couple watching soccer. Like, they're watching soccer and then she said, "I could also be Manuel Neoya." Then if the girlfriend changes into manua and it is so funny.

[00:04:16]>> Is he hot?

[00:04:17]>> You want to see him?

[00:04:18]>> I will do research after the shoot today.

[00:04:21]>> He's the goalkeeper and there's a viral clip of him like running out of the goalkeeper section and he runs all the way to the middle and then they lose.

[00:04:30]>> She's talking about the Korea Germany game and Germany's losing uh 2-1. Neuer is famous for coming out of his box and pressing like sweeper keeper and he presses way too hard and Korea gets the ball and like plays it long and Solomon scores and they win two zero.

[00:04:42]>> Oh, Thomas Mueller.

[00:04:44]>> In Spain we call him Thomas Müller.

[00:04:46]>> We would say Thomas Müller.

[00:04:47]>> We would say Thomas Müller.

[00:04:49]>> We would say Thomas Mueller.

[00:04:51]>> So in German you would say Thomas Müller.

[00:04:53]>> Müller.

[00:04:53]>> The R is always silent at the end, right?

[00:04:56]>> Yeah, kind of. But I feel like everything sounds so fancy in French.

[00:04:59]Can you say it again?

[00:05:00]>> Thomas Muer. Sounds like a watch brand or something like amazing.

[00:05:03]>> That name reminds me of yogurt because in Italy we have like a really famous brand called like Mueller. So if I think about his name, I'm like, "Oh, the yogurt."

[00:05:12]>> Oh, what am I looking at again? What is this?

[00:05:15]>> Let's try this. This is awesome.

[00:05:17]>> Mark Andre Teran.

[00:05:19]>> Well, that sounds so American.

[00:05:20]>> I just I'm not going to even try with this one.

[00:05:22]>> I've actually never heard his first name too much. So it's like Mark Andre Terstean.

[00:05:26]>> We usually call him like just Mark Andresen. usually just call him.

[00:05:32]>> This is a Belgian, right? It's Marandre.

[00:05:34]>> Oh, wow.

[00:05:36]>> Wow.

[00:05:36]>> The name sounds Dutch.

[00:05:38]>> Yeah. Marandre. Yeah.

[00:05:39]>> Is that like a normal name in Belgium?

[00:05:41]>> Marandre sounds totally Yeah. Is Dutch >> teran? Like is that like mean something special? Why is there a space?

[00:05:47]>> No idea. Ter means like at at stan.

[00:05:50]Yeah.

[00:05:50]>> What is What is >> our question? Oh, it's like Ellie. Alie.

[00:05:57]>> Alley. At the alley.

[00:05:58]>> Yeah. At the alley. Mark Andrea.

[00:06:00]>> All right, I can vibe with that. This is cool. That was cool.

[00:06:02]>> Uh, in Italy, I think we would say like Mark Andrean.

[00:06:05]>> In Germany, you say Mark Andre Tigan, but it's obviously not a German German name.

[00:06:10]>> I mean, Kevin de Brun.

[00:06:13]>> Kevin Brun.

[00:06:14]>> Let me get a mulligan. Kevin de Bruan.

[00:06:18]>> Did I get worse?

[00:06:19]>> They just call him Kevin De Bruyne.

[00:06:21]>> Bruiner.

[00:06:22]>> I'm just saying what I'm hearing. I'm the messenger here. I have no idea how to pronounce it to the Spanish way to pronounce it.

[00:06:27]>> Kevin de Bruyne. Ooh, that was good.

[00:06:28]>> In German, Kevin de Bruina.

[00:06:30]>> In French, Kevin de Bruyne.

[00:06:32]>> In Italian, Kevin de Bruyne.

[00:06:34]>> So, it's Kevin Debran.

[00:06:35]>> Oh, the Brah. Kevin the Bra.

[00:06:37]>> It's like Kevin the Brown. The the Bruin means >> but I mean the Bran is like different, you know, spelling version, but he sounds like the Brown. Yeah, he's uh our top guy, you know, playing in the Premier League, >> you know. You know, you can know how many how long he's playing just by seeing his face. Like if he's just read a little bit here, he's playing 5 minutes. If he's like almost all the cheek, he's playing like 30 minutes.

[00:06:57]When he's the jersey scholar, it means the match is over.

[00:07:00]>> Whenever I say I'm from Belgium, like the first thing people is, >> give me the bread.

[00:07:04]>> God, what are we doing? This sounds French at the end. I want to do a little at the end. Ta t or tibo. Oh my god.

[00:07:12]Tibo.

[00:07:14]>> Yeah, >> the hand.

[00:07:15]>> That was amazing. I don't know how to pronounce it. Tibo Corttois. In Spain, we call him Tibboto.

[00:07:20]>> In German, you would also say Tibu.

[00:07:23]>> In French, we say Tibboto.

[00:07:25]>> In Italy, we say Tibboto. So, it's Tibo Kushwa. Yeah, everyone did really good on this one. Yeah, >> everyone the big man is >> I'm having the most fun here. I'm learning so much.

[00:07:37]>> Our legendary goalkeeper.

[00:07:38]>> Was he like 66?

[00:07:40]>> He's totally like >> Does he just like lay horizontally most of the time?

[00:07:44]>> Yeah. Yeah. There's always shots of him like don't say anything.

[00:07:47]>> This is the one soccer player that I know. Killian Mbappe.

[00:07:51]>> He's dating so pretty Spanish by the way.

[00:07:53]>> Can you say his name? Can you stop flirting with a man's wife?

[00:07:56]>> In Spain, we say Kian Mbappe.

[00:07:58]>> In German, we say Kian Mbappe.

[00:08:01]>> In Belgium, we say Kian Mbappe.

[00:08:03]>> In Italy, we say Kian.

[00:08:05]>> In French, we say Kanbape.

[00:08:06]>> But his last name is not technically French, though, right?

[00:08:09]>> Exactly. But we say in French pronunciation. I I don't know exactly where is he from. Sorry. I won't try to say the proper way because might sound racist.

[00:08:17]>> No, just try your best. We're Americans.

[00:08:18]We just say whatever we want to. I guess we'll say like that would be the bright way to say, but usually French people will say Mbappe. We like say the M.

[00:08:26]>> By the way, he's such like meme material. Like I love his He's cute like this.

[00:08:32]>> Very famous >> when he almost like kissed Messi.

[00:08:35]>> They were like really close like arguing.

[00:08:37]>> I just like that they say he looks like a ninja turtle. That makes >> he does.

[00:08:40]>> Oh, he does.

[00:08:40]>> To be fair, >> I don't see it. I think he looks like a a handsome man. But >> did the other like soccer players from from the team, they gave him like a Ninja Turtle face mask.

[00:08:49]>> When they gave it to him, I was like, "Oh, maybe I I a little bit see it now."

[00:08:52]>> Okay, we have the beautiful Antoine Griezmann. I killed it. I know. Don't tell me.

[00:08:58]>> Yeah, I think it's Antoine Griezmann. In Spain, we call him Antoan Griezmann.

[00:09:02]>> In German, Antoan Griezmann.

[00:09:05]>> In Belgium, you would say Antoan Griezmann.

[00:09:07]>> I think in Italy, it would be Antoine Griezmann.

[00:09:10]>> So, you were quite close. It's Antwan Griezmann, >> but it doesn't sound very French.

[00:09:14]>> Isn't he like half German or something?

[00:09:16]>> Gatesman sounds very German.

[00:09:17]>> Sounds very German.

[00:09:18]>> But then Antoan, very French.

[00:09:20]>> Oh, lord.

[00:09:22]>> Oh, I'm curious.

[00:09:24]>> Just hit it.

[00:09:24]>> All right. Luigi Buffon.

[00:09:26]>> Oh, yeah. The accent was on point.

[00:09:28]>> Super Mario.

[00:09:29]>> Typical American accent is like John Luigi Buffon. In Spain, we call him Jan Luigi Buffon.

[00:09:33]>> In German, you would say John Luigi Buffon.

[00:09:36]>> In France, we say John Luigi Buffon.

[00:09:38]>> In Belgium, we would say Jan Luigi Buffon. Yeah, actually you kind of got it right because it's Janu Buffon.

[00:09:44]>> I think most of the time we refer to him as just >> just Buffon. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:09:47]>> Because he's the one.

[00:09:48]>> So this is obviously the R maxing Fedrico Chisa. Fedrico Chisa.

[00:09:54]>> Basic American way we say it is Frederrico Ka.

[00:09:57]>> In Spain we call him Federico Cha.

[00:09:59]>> In German you would say Federrico Ka.

[00:10:02]>> In France we say Fedrico Kza. In Belgium we would say Fedrico Cha.

[00:10:07]>> There's chi.

[00:10:08]>> No. In Italian, that one is key. So, it's Federico Kza. Fun fact, KZA means church.

[00:10:15]>> She's church.

[00:10:16]>> He was my crush during the European Cup.

[00:10:19]I was like, "Oh my gosh, he's not handsome, but he's charming. He has that vibe, the aura." Yeah.

[00:10:28]>> Actually, like not only me, even in the comment section, they say Ka look a little bit like him. I mean, JUST A LITTLE BIT.

[00:10:34]>> NO.

[00:10:35]>> YEAH. This one. This is a Oh, >> she's like the American version of him.

[00:10:42]>> I'll take it. I'll take it.

[00:10:43]>> You spoil the name.

[00:10:44]>> You spoil it.

[00:10:45]>> Espanol. Okay. This is Lamina Yamar.

[00:10:52]>> He gave like a sour face.

[00:10:54]>> The way typical American broadcasters say is Lemaul.

[00:10:57]>> It's a little bit like a Pokemon name.

[00:10:59]Like >> Leo. He kind of looks like a Pokemon.

[00:11:01]Like a second evolution Pokemon.

[00:11:03]>> In German we would say Yamin Yamal. Uh, in French we just call him either Yamal or we say lamin yama.

[00:11:10]>> In Belgium we would say lamin yamal.

[00:11:12]>> In Italy it was lin.

[00:11:14]>> Actually everyone got it because in Spain we call him laminal.

[00:11:18]>> I was a little bit too heavy on the e.

[00:11:20]>> Yeah. But you did like I mean like really good. He's half gin and half Moroccan. So I don't know. Maybe the name is like >> probably not Spanish.

[00:11:28]>> Yeah. And the best player right now in the world and the best winger right now.

[00:11:31]If you say no it's because you are jealous.

[00:11:33]>> This Yes.

[00:11:34]>> Yeah. Don't say anything.

[00:11:35]>> Uh, ces fabrigas.

[00:11:39]>> Ces fabas.

[00:11:40]>> Fabregas.

[00:11:41]>> Fabregas.

[00:11:41]>> Fabregas. Yeah.

[00:11:42]>> In German it would be ces fabricas.

[00:11:45]>> Uh, we call him fabricas most of the time, but probably ces fabricas. I think in Belgium we would also say cis fabricas or sis fabricas.

[00:11:53]>> I would say like ches fabricas.

[00:11:56]Fabrigas.

[00:11:57]>> Yeah.

[00:11:57]>> Yeah. Actually, it's really easy too. So it's like fes fabrigas. Usually we say fes. I mean maybe some of them they will say like fes. Is it is it a common name sess?

[00:12:06]>> No, I mean usually it's like fesk.

[00:12:08]>> Yeah, it's the people who like to be obnoxious like balana.

[00:12:11]>> Balana.

[00:12:12]>> You're from the valley. Like no one's you're fooling nobody here.

[00:12:15]>> It sounds like in Harry Potter, you know, when they speak the snake language.

[00:12:19]>> Slytherin.

[00:12:22]>> I want to I just want to be funny here.

[00:12:25]Sergio Biscuits.

[00:12:26]>> I know.

[00:12:28]>> You say right like like I show speed.

[00:12:30]When I show speed got him in there, he was like biscuits. Biscuits.

[00:12:33]>> Shout out Sergio Biscuits. Fire. I'll rub some butter on you.

[00:12:38]>> Please continue. Let's all focus.

[00:12:40]>> Dip it in some ranch. Right.

[00:12:41]>> Great idea.

[00:12:42]>> Wait a second. Typical American way. If you know Sergio Busett.

[00:12:45]>> I said brusqueta.

[00:12:46]>> Yeah, it sounds like brusqueta.

[00:12:48]>> What's busqueta?

[00:12:49]>> The little like chabata with tomato and garlic. I'm educated American.

[00:12:54]>> Why don't you guys just say sandwich?

[00:12:56]>> Oh, you killed her right now. How could you do this to me? To us.

[00:13:00]>> Back to Sergio.

[00:13:02]Sergio Busets. In >> France, we will say Sergio Buset.

[00:13:06]>> In Belgium, we would say Sergio Buset.

[00:13:08]>> In Italy, we will say Sergio Busets.

[00:13:10]>> In Spain, we call him Serio Buset.

[00:13:12]>> Oh, I'm sorry for calling him like this, you know.

[00:13:16]>> So fancy.

[00:13:17]>> Okay. Christian. Oh, wait. Oh, wait. We don't say they >> Oh, yeah.

[00:13:21]>> In Spain, we call him Christian Pik.

[00:13:23]>> In German, you would say Christian Pik.

[00:13:25]>> Probably. Christian Pich. In Belgium, we would say Christian. In Italy, we would say Christian Pissik.

[00:13:31]>> Wait, because I feel like you would know the proper pronunciation and I still have a chance to mess it up. Christian Pulysic.

[00:13:37]>> Christian Pulysic. Yeah, he's our He's our Captain America. Our number 10. Is he Is he really good?

[00:13:42]>> I mean, he's our number 10. Yeah, >> he's good. He's like, >> he won the Champions League. He scored against Real Madrid.

[00:13:47]>> Put some respect on my boy's name.

[00:13:48]>> They call him Captain America for a reason.

[00:13:50]>> So, I've heard him say his name the way I say his name, Christian Pisc. And then there's like a way that like I think his parents say their last name and it's like a little bit different like Eastern European country. It is.

[00:13:59]>> I feel like this one might be easy just cuz it's like an Italian.

[00:14:02]>> That's an Italian name.

[00:14:03]>> In Spain, we would call him Giovanni Reena.

[00:14:06]>> In German, we would say Giovanni Reena.

[00:14:08]>> In France, we will say Gavio Reena. In Belgium, we would say Giovani Reena.

[00:14:12]>> In Italian, we would say Gavio Rea.

[00:14:14]>> In Moon, we'd say Giovanni Rea.

[00:14:17]>> So, this is Giovanni Rea. And his dad was on the national team, too. And he's on the national team currently. He always gets hurt every two weeks though.

[00:14:25]Sorry bud.

[00:14:26]>> The surname is not Italian but the name it is. Yeah, >> he's goalkeeper, right?

[00:14:30]>> No, he's an attacking midfielder.

[00:14:32]>> I know. Pepea. Sorry. Sorry.

[00:14:34]>> Pepe is a goalkeeper. Yes.

[00:14:35]>> Yeah, that's why I was like thinking about Pepe Raina.

[00:14:37]>> It was really funny.

[00:14:38]>> I learned a lot.

[00:14:39]>> Tell me two things you learned.

[00:14:40]>> Um, Captain America. It's racist to say Mbappé's last name.

[00:14:45]>> The difference was like maybe this much.

[00:14:47]I thought it was fun cuz like when we were saying like Kasa or Buffon, I felt like from when I said it to when they were saying it, all of the European our European friends kind of said it similar and I didn't really hear a difference.

[00:15:00]But when they were saying the American players names, even though the Americans kind of also have a European tang to it, too. I could hear like each individual dialect from like their country. The best one was Moon, of course. I mean I mean he he's taking the MVP today. I like football too. So that's why I mean I know a little bit about their how how to say their names. So maybe as a Spanish Spanish who doesn't know about football, maybe they will say it like other way.

[00:15:23]>> So today we compared the names of famous soccer players.

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