Beware of the Beast ; Meet Baptista, the Rare Species Who Combines His Goalscoring with an Aura of Invincibility
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INTHEwonderful nomenclature that dominates Spanish football, it is not enough to merely have a Christian name and a surname - anyone who is anyone simply must have a nickname.
Thomas Gravesen is 'The Ogre', Luis Aragones is 'The Wise Man of Hortaleza', Diego Simeone was always 'Cocky', Johan Cruyff was 'The Skinny One' and Ronaldo, back in the days when he was slim like Cruyff, was 'The Rabbit'.See the full content of this document
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Beware of the Beast ; Meet Baptista, the Rare Species Who Combines His Goalscoring with an Aura of Invincibility
But there is only one 'Beast'.
The animal in question is FC Seville's Julio Cesar Baptista who, at just under eleven-and-a-half stone and six-foot tall, doesn't exactly sound too bestial.Yet he has scared seven shades of stuff out of defende...See the full content of this document
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