Footballer Nicknames

Argentina: 

Simeone - El cholo (the beast)
Messi - La pulga (the flea) [for his height]
Maradona - El pibe de oro (Golden Boy), Hand of God
Tevez - El apache [he was born in the Apache]
Aguero - Kun [based on a cartoon character]
Batistuta - Bati-Gol


Brazil:

Ronaldo - Il fenomeno (the phenomenom)
Pele - O Rei (the King)
Ronaldinho - The One Man Show


Colombia:

Falcao - El tigre (the tiger)
Rodriguez - El bandido (the bandit)
Higuita - The loco (the crazy one)


England:

Beckham - Spice Boy [because he's married to a Spice Girl], Becks
Rooney - Wazza, Shrek
Kane - Hurricane [it sounds like his name]
Owen - The wonder boy
Gascoigne - Gazza


France:

Ribery - Scarface
Zidane - Zizou
Henry - Titi


Germany:

Beckenbauer - der Kaiser
Kahn - Gengis Kahn, der Titan, Volcano
Müller - Raumdeuter (Space investigator) [because he finds space everywhere]
Özil - Nemo [because of his eyes]
Podolski - Prinz Poldi (prince Poldi)
Schweinsteiger - Schweini, Fußball-Gott (football god)
Völler - Tante Käthe (aunt Käthe) [because of his hairstyle looking like that of a housewife]
Klinsmann - Klinsi
G. Müller - der Bomber


Italy:

Buffon - Super Gigi
Cannavaro - The Berlin wall
Balotelli - Super Mario
Totti - Er pupone (the big baby), the gladiator
Pirlo - The architect
Baggio - The divine ponytail


Mexico:

Hernandez - Chicharito (little pea) [his dad was called 'pea']
Lozano - Chucky [because he scared fellow children when he was younger]
Ochoa - the octopus [because he stopped every ball during the match vs. Brazil in the 2014 World Cup]


The Netherlands:

Bergkamp - the non-flying Dutchman [because he's afraid to fly]
Koeman - The snowflake
Rijkaard - The llama [because of his spitting at the 1990 World Cup]


Portugal:

Ronaldo - CR7, Crybaby
Eusebio - the black panther


Spain:

Casillas - San Iker, the Saint, el gato (the cat) [because of his sharp reflexes]
Puyol - Tarzan [because of his appearance]
Iniesta - El ilusionista (the illusionist), Don Andres [by the media]
Villa - El guaje (the kid) [because he played with older children as a kid], Maravilla (miracle) How about Leg7nd?
Torres - El niño (the child) [because he became a captain at a very young age]
Azpilicueta - Dave [because his name is so hard to pronounce]


Sweden:

Ibrahimovic - Ibracadabra


Ukraine:

Shevchenko - Sheva


Uruguay:

Suarez - El pistolero (the gunslinger) [because of his celebration where he formed a gun with his hand], the cannibal
Cavani - El matador (the bullfighter)