World Football

R onaldinho and Cristano Ronaldo Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . It's Miller/Muller time All Diegos Team Italian players with surname ending with an "i" What if Ronaldo and Messi playing for Australia in 2006 Brazilian players who shared names with historical figures The idea of this blog team came because of the fact that Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Cristano Ronaldo shared the same name.  Together, they won 8 Ballon D'or titles at the time of writing.  It is the only name that have multi winners. Ronaldo is a Spanish and Portuguese form of the name Ronald. Ronald is a masculine given name derived from the Old Norse Rögnvaldr. In some cases Ronald is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic Raghnall, a name likewise derived from Rögnvaldr. The latter name is composed of the Old Norse elements regin ("advice", "decision") and valdr ("ruler", "brightness").  Ronald was originally used in England and Scotland, where Scandi...

Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Rafael van der Vaart  Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . Netherlands Surnamese-Dutch , North Holland ,  South Holand . The rest of Netherlands excluding North and South Holland Netherlands All-Time Team After Johan Cruyff Netherlands 2002 Netherlands before Johan Cruyff (BC) Dutch-Indos/Indonesia-born Dutch All-Time Team Netherlands Euro 1984 It's Miller/Muller time All Diegos Team Italian players with surname ending with an "i" Ronaldo, Ronald, Ronnie, Ron, etc All-Time team Brazilian footballers who shared names with historical figures "Van" is a preposition in the Dutch and Afrikaans languages, meaning "of" or "from" depending on the context (similar to de and di in the Romance languages). "van" is a very common prefix in Dutch language surnames, where it is known as a tussenvoegsel. In those cases it nearly always refers to a certain, often quite distant, ancestor's place of origin o...