UEFA Europa League sides’ nicknames: A to K
AC Milan – Diavoli (Devils)
We all know a sincerely relief Rossoneri (Red and Blacks), though those colours also desirous a rather some-more sinister moniker. English owner Herbert Kilpin explained: “Our colours will be red, given we will be a devils; and black, signifying a apprehension we will strike into a hearts of a opponents.”
AEK Athens – Double-Headed Eagle
The Greek group are famous as Enosis or ‘union’ (the E in AEK), though maybe some-more evocative is Double-Headed Eagle, taken from a bar crest. AEK were determined by refugees from Constantinople (the K of AEK) and a Byzantine eagle was their symbol.
Arsenal – The Gunners
Arsenal were shaped by armament workers in 1886 in Woolwich, an area of south-east London afterwards compared with a military. Hence a name Arsenal, a cannon on a badge and, for consistency’s sake, a nickname.
Astana – none
The bar came into being in 2009 and zero has stranded yet. They are sponsored by Kazakhstani state railway and started out as Lokomotiv though a Railway Men didn’t fit; Citizens, desirous by their new name, was trialled though a some-more boring Yellow and Blue appears to have some-more staying power.
Atalanta – La Dea (The Goddess)
The bar were named in honour of a huntress and contestant from Greek mythology, hence a nickname La Dea – The Goddess. Happily single, Atalanta told suitors she would marry them if they could outpace her, though kill them if they failed. Plenty attempted and unsuccessful before Hippomenes timed his drop perfectly.
Athletic Club – Leones (The Lions)
Athletic’s track sits subsequent to a church of San Mamés, named after a saint who, fable has it, a Romans threw to a lions. Instead of gobbling adult a prisoner, a beasts lay during his feet. Athletic’s players are a lions, fortifying their stadium, San Mamés.
Atlético – Los Colchoneros (The Mattress Makers)
In a post-civil fight duration in Spain, mattresses had a uniform pattern of red and white stripes, creation this element cheap. Atlético soon ditched their blue and white and in an present became a mattress makers.
Braga – Os Arsenalistas (The Arsenal fans)
Braga wore white and immature until Hungarian manager József Szabó visited Arsenal in 1935. He was so tender with a north London bar that he assured Braga to spin a colour circle 180º. Also famous as Bracarenses, a curtsy to Braga’s Roman name of Bracara Augusta.
Celtic – Bhoys
The bar were founded to lift income for a bad and urge amicable formation between Irish immigrants and local Glaswegians – a name Celtic a sign of their common heritage. Bhoys was a name Irish incomers used to call themselves.
Crvena zvezda – Crveno-beli (Red-and-Whites)
‘Red Star’ were determined from a stays of a disbanded SK Jugoslavija. They were given Jugoslavija’s stadium, offices, players, and even their red and white colours.
CSKA Moskva – Armeytsi (Army Men)
The bar began life as partial of a Society of Ski Sports Amateurs, though in 1923 were taken underneath a wing of a Soviet army. CSKA, their central name given 1960, stands for Central Sports Сlub (Klub) of a Army.
Dortmund – Die Schwarz-Gelben (The Black and Yellows)
Dortmund once wore red, white and blue though switched in 1913 following critical lobbying from destiny bar boss Aug Busse. Yellow and black were a colours of Britannia, a side that had joined with Dortmund a few years earlier. For a while they were famous as ‘The Lemons’.
Dynamo Kyiv – Bilo-Syni (White-Blue)
The Ukrainian giants’ moniker is a anxiety to a colours they have donned for most of their 90-year existence.
FCSB – none
A long, difficult story though a bar were usually renamed final Mar and do not nonetheless have a nickname.
København – Byens Hold (The City’s Team)
Who doesn’t suffer a bit of one-upmanship? København and Brøndby browbeat a Danish football landscape, though as FCK fans are cannot to remind their good rivals, usually one is in a heart of Copenhagen – and so in Copenhagen’s hearts. Brondby is a suburb.
The remaining teams, L to Z, will be suggested tomorrow.