Hulk, not Zenit St. Petersburg’s Brazilian winger, but the Lou Ferrigno version of pure green unimaginable strength, was always my favorite superhero. If I had to choose from the ample superhuman characters available to be in my football team, it would have been him. But unfortunately he was…

As young kids playing football, surely each one of us, have imagined and at times have even referred ourselves to these cool sounding Brazilian monikers like Pele, Garrincha, Felipao, Kaka, Ronaldo, Robinho, etc. But little do we know about the background of how the name came up or…