World Cup: Learn about the meanings of the titles of the participating teams

 

Ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar™, many are wondering why the teams participating in the World Cup are given strange names and nicknames. Perhaps one of the benefits of football is that it has contributed to the spread of languages among peoples, do you know, for example, that the word "Seleção", by which Brazilians call their team, and the word (Manchaft), by which the Germans call their team, mean only one word, which is "team"? Here is a collection of local words in some languages that have spread globally, because they have become nicknames for football teams.

World Cup titles: animals, colors, etc.

The titles of the teams participating in each edition of the World Cup arouse the enthusiasm of the international fans, because their title, for example, is associated with the animal most present in their country, while other countries follow geographical references in naming their teams, or titles linked to the history of a particular country or society. This is a list of the connotations and meanings of the titles of national football teams.

French

The French Revolution is an inspiration for many peoples in the world, and the French "rooster" has been adopted as a symbol of French awakening since the fourteenth century, which is also a symbol of the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, some may see that the "rooster" is a weak bird that is not compared to the falcon or eagle, and this is what prompted the French Olympic Committee in 1997 to withdraw the rooster symbol as a logo from all games, but this decision provoked the anger of all French athletes, and they considered that decision insulting to the values of the French nation.

Qatari Burgundy

Burgundy is the distinctive color in the Qatari flag, the favorite color in the logos of Qatari institutions, and it is the favorite in the uniform of the Qatari team, which is why the Qatari team hosting the 2022 World Cup is nicknamed Burgundy.

Atlas Lions (Morocco)

The Moroccan national team is nicknamed the "Atlas Lions" and this nickname goes back to the Berber lions that lived in the Atlas Mountains until the beginning of the 20th century, in addition to the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean and the extension of this ocean over a large area of the Kingdom of Morocco, the Moroccan team includes the best Moroccan football players, led by Moroccan coach Walid Regragui.

Portugal national team navigators

The Portuguese are among the most famous peoples in maritime navigation, including Vasco de Cama, one of the most successful explorers in the age of geographical discovery, the commander of the first ships that were able to sail directly from Europe to India, and the first European to reach India via the Cape of Good Hope. The Portuguese team is nicknamed the "navigators" after the Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama.

Dutch Mills

The mill is a large machine or house dedicated to millstone management, a tool used to grind grains such as coffee, wheat and barley to turn them into fine powder, and may work with manual or electric energy, wind or water, and it is said that the most country in the world that contains mills is the Netherlands, so it is no wonder that the Netherlands team is called the "mills" team.

German Machinery

You may expect that the team nicknamed the machines is Germany, this is true, and you may expect that the reason is that they make the best machines in the world, this may not be true, it is said that the reason is the old German administrative system, which treats the employee or worker as if he were a machine, this may be the reason, and in all cases, the Germans teach and play with discipline, efficiency and rigor just like machines.

Belgium (Red Devils)

Belgium, who have long topped the world rankings, are nicknamed the Red Devils by their fans for their discipline and high and enjoyable performances at many times.

Invincible Black Cameroon

Lions represent an important part of Cameroonian culture, and therefore the Cameroon national team took the "Lions" as a title, but he also wanted to differentiate between it and the rest of the teams that bear this title, so he added in the eighties of the last century a description befitting the strength of the team at this time, after it qualified for the 1982 World Cup and then won the African Cup of Nations for the first time two years later, to become its title "Invincible Lions" or "Untamed Lions".

Green Falcons

The Green Falcons are the title of the Saudi national team, the "Falcons of the Jedians" is the title of the Sudanese team, and there is another team in Africa that holds the same title, it is the "Togo" team.

Eagles

As with the Falcons, many teams bear the nickname "Eagles", such as Tunisia known as the Carthage Eagles, Syria "Qasioun Eagles", Nigeria "Green Eagles", and Serbia "White Eagles".

Lions of Teranga (Senegal)

The word means the language of the "Wolof" tribes that inhabit Senegal, Gambia and Mauritania hospitality, and the Senegalese national team prefers the title "Lions of Teranga" to differentiate it from other African teams that bear the name of lions, such as Cameroon "Lions Untamed" and Morocco "Lions of Atlas".

Three Lions

It is the nickname of the English team, and the title came from the three lions that are found on various emblems in the United Kingdom, and its adoption dates back to the reign of Richard the Lionheart during the period from 1198 to 1340 AD.

Kangaroo

You must know which team can be called "kangaroos"? It's Australia's team, don't ask why? Just to know that kangaroos in Australia outnumber humans.

Switzerland national team Dai Edgesen

The beginning of the establishment of Switzerland dates back to August 1, 1291. When three cantons, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Jüri, met and signed a defense alliance pact, known as the "Permanent Pact", this charter served as the cornerstone of the birth of the Swiss Confederation, later called Switzerland, a charter in Swiss called "Die Edgessen", the nickname of the Swiss national team.

Colors. Team Titles

Because the match takes place on a green rectangle and 22 players compete at home, each team must be distinguished by a different color in the sports uniform, and all teams have a primary color and a reserve color, and some of these teams derived their titles and name from their distinctive color, such as the Qatari team "Burgundy", the host of the 2022 World Cup.

Emirati White

White has always been the favourite of all teams, the UAE national team is lucky in this color, it's a beautiful nickname "Play White".

Azuri

Azzurri is the plural of the word azzurro, meaning sky blue, and sky blue was the official color of the Svoya family – kings of Italy until 1946 – which is why azure is the color worn by Italian sports teams, and with it the Italian national team is nicknamed.

In the Arabian Gulf blue is the title of the Kuwaiti team, and the irony is that the flag of Italy and the flag of Kuwait are devoid of blue!!

Albiceleste Argentina national team

Spanish is the official language of Argentina and in most of the South American continent except Brazil, which speaks Portuguese, do you know why? If you don't know the answer, don't worry, we'll publish a historical article on the subject in the coming days.

In Spanish, the word "celeste" means white and cyan, and it is the title of the Argentine national team and the title of the Uruguayan team as well. Do the flags of the two countries have the color blue?

Mexico national team "three colors"

The tricolor team "3 Clores" or "El Tricolor" is the nickname of the Mexico national team and the designation refers to the tricolor of the Mexican flag.

Gulf Nawakhada

In the arms of the Arabian Gulf, Bahrain sleeps quiet and peaceful, but its people are people who love the sea, and are keen to communicate and trade with their brothers in the Gulf, the people of Bahrain are the earliest in renaissance and education, they are "Nawakhada Gulf".

The cunning of foxes

The Sahara occupies the largest part of Algeria, and the desert foxes known as "fennec" live, so it is no wonder that the Algerian national team is nicknamed "Foxes of the Sahara".

Asian Tigers

A term that appeared late in the last century to refer to the significant economic growth experienced by Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea. It is from poor, broken nations that these countries have made spectacular industrial and economic leaps.

This is what Asian teams called the "Tiger" such as the Blue Tigers (India), the Bengal Tigers (Bangladesh) and the Malay Tigers (Malaysia) hope for.

The term Asian tiger is derived from the position of tigers themselves in Asian cultures, the Asian tiger - in addition to possessing distinctive sacred and therapeutic qualities in these cultures - is characterized by its speed of movement and surprise to opponents, and this is exactly what the aforementioned countries did, when they surprised the world with the speed of their growth and transition to the stage of industrialization in a way that puzzled economics professors in the West.

Horses Burkina Faso

There is a legend in Burkina Faso that says that one of the kings had a girl named "Yangaa", her request to marry the king of one of the hostile tribes, so the king refused this marriage out of fear for his daughter, and fled her on a fast horse, and since that time the tribes of Burkina Faso take the girl "Yaninga" as a spiritual mother for her, and the horse "Yangaa" became the symbol of the tribes and the whole country, and from him the Burkina Faso team took the title of "horses".

North Korea has a fairy horse called Cholima, which is why the national team is called Cholima.

Ivory Coast elephants

The government of Côte d'Ivoire decided in 1986 to adopt the name Côte d'Ivoire as its name in all languages, and the ivory from which the country derives its name is still a living symbol of this people, and because ivory comes from elephants, it has become the name of the football team and team "elephants".

Swallows

Burundi and Rwanda share the nickname "swallows", a strange choice as these birds are birds, and they build their nests in the high ceilings of old buildings.

New Zealand Kiwi

The kiwi is a famous New Zealand bird, a very rare bird, loved by New Zealanders, so much so that they call themselves "Kiwi people", not only the football team, but the whole people!! Odd.

Congo or Zaire? Lions or Panthers?

Did you know that Congo or Zaire are two names of one country? When the name of the state was Zaire, the nickname of its team was "Cheetahs" after the symbol of the state, and with time the nickname of the team changed to "Simba" or "Lion", but the popular demand to restore the old name returned the nickname "Cheetahs" again to the Democratic Republic of the Congo team. It is strange that the name of the country changes and the title of the team remains the same.

Copper bullets

Copper Bullets is the nickname of the Zambian national team that became known in the eighties as (KK11), in reference to being the personal team of Zambia's first post-independence president Kennett Kaunda, but then the name was changed to "Copper Bullets".

Cranes or cranes

The crane bird is a bird family that follows the order of cranes from the class of birds, and it is found in the flag of Uganda, and in English the name of the bird is written Crane, some mistakenly translated by cranes, and they call the Uganda team the "cranes" team.

Black Star

He launched the famous Jamaican politician Marcus Garvey in 1919. When the flag of Ghana was first placed in 1957, the three colors (red, yellow and green) with a black star in the middle were chosen as a symbol of the idea of returning to the continent of Africa, and from this star the Ghanaian national team derived its nickname "Black Stars".

Gold Star

There is another team called the "Golden Star", which is the team of Vietnam, because of the presence of the Golden Star in the red flag, and politics seems to talk a lot in Vietnam of course, but can you guess the symbolism of the color red?

South African toast "boys"

South Africa returned to the world of football in 1992 after long years of isolation due to the policy of racial discrimination, and in its first international match against Cameroon, as the match approached its end, the fans began to shout (Bafana Bafana), which means in the language of the Zulu tribes, "Come on, boys. Come forward, boys" and the national team's nickname became "boys".

Lightning

We know that the atmosphere on the African continent is tropical, which is why the Equatorial Guinea national team chose the title "National Lightning", a title that is associated with popular culture in a country where lightning is usual and good.