By Ifeanyi Ibeh
One of the interesting things about football apart from the excitement and passion it generates is the fact that teams whether at club or national level, often adopt monikers. All the teams at the 2010 World Cup save Slovenia have one.
Algeria: Les Fennecs (The Desert Foxes)
Argentina: Albicelestes (sky-blue white)
Australia: Socceroos (Soccer/Kangaroo)
Brazil: Canarinho (Little Canary)
Cameroon: Lions Indomitables (Indomitable Lions)
Chile: La Roja (The red one)
Denmark: Danish Dynamite
England: The Three Lions
France: Les Bleus (The Blues)
Germany: Mannschaft (The Team)
Ghana: Black Stars
Greece: To Peiratiko (The Pirate Ship)
Honduras: Los Catrachos (The Hondurans)
Italy: Azzurri (Blues)
Cote‘d Ivoire: Les Éléphants (The Elephants)
Japan: Samurai Blues
Mexico: El Tricolor
Netherlands: Oranje (Orange)
New Zealand: All Whites
Nigeria: Super Eagles
North Korea: Chollima (A Mythical Horse)
Paraguay: Guaraníes
Portugal: Selecção das Quinas (National Team of the Five)
Serbia: Plavi (The Blue)
Slovenia: none
Slovakia: The Fighting Jondas
South Africa: Bafana Bafana (The Boys, The Boys)
South Korea: Taeguk Warriors
Spain:La Furia Roja (The Red Fury)
Switzerland: Schweizer Nati (the Nats)
USA: Stars and Stripes
Uruguay: Charrúas
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