What should we call our players?
gabrielas
magayons
sampaguitas
malditas
engkantadas
paulinas
islanders
perlas
bellas
lakambinis
diwatas
musas
lobos
kulebras
imeldas
i am starting to like MALDITAS.
what do you think?
Malditas is good. Although i suggested Paulinas over at PS.
wlang princesa? yun sa akin princesa... yung sa the teeth hehehe
Malditas was already agreed. That's their present moniker now.
Malditas (that's "snobbish" in english...is that correct?)
Although interesting choice for the WNT....it is very close to the Australian Women's team's nickname....Matildas (female kangaroo)
Snobbish is better than being a female kangaroo? lol
The way Australia name their sporting teams is based on animals found in......drum roll....Australia
Rugby Union - Wallabies
Rugby League - Kangaroos
Soccer (mens) - Socceroos (PS: since kangaroos is already taken, they used the words "soccer" and "roos" slang for kangaroos to form their nickname
Soccer (womens) - matildas (they used the feminine form to link it with socceroos)
Soccer (junior boys) - Joeys (a baby kangaroo)
Soccer (junior girls) - young matildas
Hockey (womens) - Hockeyross (again they used the word hockey and roos to form their nickname). This team is more famous than the men's team
Hockey(mens) - Kookaburras (a native bird of Australia). They were already running out of other choices for nicknames..so they used this name..unfortunately, there is no connection with the nickname to the women's team.
I am rather pleased that PFF chose malditas (for the time being at least).
Sometime last year, I was concerned when I was reading pinoy sports articles calling them Lady Azkals. Which could be or is politically incorrect.
Asklas is our term for street dogs that loiter most streets in PHI. In modern slang it also annotates someone or something without a pedigree or status. Also, the term for a female dog is a B*tch.
So, had we used Lady Azkals as a nickname, it would have been inappropriate - considering that most member countries in the AFC are islamic countries and they have strict cultural / religious beliefs specific to pigs and dogs. And more so, any references to those animals should not be referred or linked to women.
Interesting though, how the foreign media will interpret or translate the word malditas in their respective languages when the WNT plays international games.
Having some aussie influences myself, I thought I would avoid making comment here. Hahaha but now can't help myself. Yes HRK1 the Australian national womens team are nicknamed the Matildas and are our (Asia) current AFC Womens Asian Cup title holders. But double check your interpretation of a "matilda" . You will find this interesting to read. LOL the Aussies do have some history and culture even if only a bit over 2 centuries old ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda
Forgive me if I am wrong, but maybe HRK1 you were thinking of "socceroos" when you mentioned kangaroo. More still however is the naming of Australia's u17 national football team. Nicknamed the "Joeys" , which is named after an infant kangaroo (marsupial) . Even stranger or comedic is the aussie mens u23 (commonly known as the Olympics squad) national football team nicknamed "Olyroos" . Australia is one of the countries who actually eat their national symbol.
