Com jogadores de várias partes do mundo e 16 equipas em prova na Liga dos Campeões, a UEFA lançou no site oficial um guia para evitar as dificuldades de expressão dos falantes de inglês ao dizer o nome de certos jogadores. Os clubes portugueses não escaparam a esta análise e nomes como os de Lindelöf, do Benfica, ou Laurent Depoitre, do FC Porto, estão destacados na lista.

A lista completa com os 59 nomes e como se pronunciam em inglês:

Arsenal

Héctor Bellerín – Hector Bay-air-een

Petr Cech – Pet-r Chekh

Francis Coquelin – Francis Cock-er-lan

Mathieu Debuchy – Mat-yur De-boo-she

Olivier Giroud – Olivier Gee-roo

Laurent Koscielny – Lo-ron Ko-sea-el-ni

Mesut Özil – Mesut Er-zil

Granit Xhaka – Granit Chaka

Atlético Madrid

Nicolás Gaitán – Guy-tan

Antoine Griezmann – An-twan Gree-ez-man

Koke – Ko-kay

Saúl Ñíguez – Sow-ool Nyee-gess

Stefan Savic – Sa-vich

Nicolás Schiappacasse – Ski-appa-cass-ey

Šime Vrsaljko – Shee-may Ver-sal-ko

Barcelona

Lucas Digne – Loo-cah Dee-nyuh

Ivan Rakitic – Ra-key-titch

Bayern Munique

Joshua Kimmich – Kim-ikh

Robert Lewandowski – Le-van-dov-ski

Manuel Neuer – Man-well Noy-er

Benfica

Franco Cervi – Chair-vee

Ljubomir Fejsa – Fay-sa

Victor Lindelöf – Linda-love

Borussia Dortmund

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – Oh-bam-yong

Alexander Isak – Ee-sack

Lukasz Piszczek – Woo-cash Peesh-check

Christian Pulišic – Police-sick

Marco Reus - Royce

Nuri Sahin – Noo-ree Shah-hin

Roman Weidenfeller – Vye-den-feller

Juventus

Gianluigi Buffon – Boo-fon

Giorgio Chiellini – Kee-ell-ee-nee

Gonzalo Higuaín – Ee-gway-een

Mario Mandžukic – Man-joo-kitch

Claudio Marchisio – Mar-kee-sio

Marko Pjaca – Pee-at-za

Miralem Pjanic – Pee-ah-nitch

Leicester City

Robert Huth - Hoot

Bartosz Kapustka – Bar-tosh

Kasper Schmeichel – Smai-kel

Leonardo Ulloa – Lay-oh-nar-doe Oo-show-ah

Bayer Leverkusen

Hakan Çalhanoglu – Chall-han-och-loo

Aleksandar Dragovic – Drago-vitch

Tin Jedvaj – Yed-vye

Ramazan Özcan – Erz-jan

Joel Pohjanpalo – Po-hyan-pallo

Ömer Toprak – Er-mar Top-rukh

Manchester City

Willy Caballero – Caba-yair-o

Ilkay Gündogan - Ilk-eye Gun-doch-wan

Jesús Navas – Hess-oos

Bacary Sagna – Sa-nyah

Monaco

Tiémoué Bakayoko – Tee-ay-moo-ay

João Moutinho – Joo-ow Mow-cheen-oo

Danijel Subašic – Sooba-shitch

Nápoles

Vlad Chiriches – Kiri-kesh

Emanuele Giaccherini – Ja-care-ee-nee

Marek Hamšík – Ham-sheek

Elseid Hysaj – El-say-eed Hoo-sigh

Lorenzo and Roberto Insigne – In-scene-yer

Nikola Maksimovic – Mak-sim-ov-itch

Ivan Strinic – Stree-nitch

Piotr Zielinski – Zhee-el-een-ski

Paris Saint-Germain

Serge Aurier – Or-ee-ay

Grzegorz Krychowiak – G-sheg-orsh Kri-ko-vyak

Layvin Kurzawa – Kur-zha-va

Thomas Meunier – Mer-nee-air

Gonçalo Guedes – Gair-diss

FC Porto

Iker Casillas – Ee-care Ca-see-yass

Jesús Corona – Hess-oos

Laurent Depoitre – Lo-ron Der-pwat-r

Real Madrid

Dani Carvajal – Car-va-hal

Mateo Kovacic – Ko-va-chitch

Toni Kroos - Crows

Luka Modric – Mod-rich

Pepe - Pep

James Rodríguez – Ha-mess

Sevilha

Daniel Carriço – Car-hiss-oh

Stevan Jovetic – Yo-veh-titch

Benoît Trémoulinas – Ben-wah Tray-moo-lee-nass