Argelico Fucks
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| Argel Fucks | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Argelico Fucks | |
| Date of birth | 4 September 1974 | |
| Place of birth | Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | |
| Playing position | Central defender | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1992-1995 1995-1997 1997-1998 1999 2000 2001-01/2005 01/2005-04/2005 04/2005-01/2006 |
Internacional Verdy Kawasaki Santos FC FC Porto Palmeiras Benfica Lisboa Racing Santander Cruzeiro |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Argelico 'Argel' Fucks (born 4 September 1974 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul) is a Brazilian professional footballer. Fucks plied his trade in his homeland as well as Japan, Portugal and Spain. He won the Rio Grande do Sul State league, the Brazilian cup, the Brazilian champions cup, the Conmebol Cup plus the Portuguese league, cup and Supercup [1]. He also represented Brazil internationally at the Under-20 level winning both the South American Championship and the Youth World Cup [2].
In his years playing in Brazil, he earned a reputation of being a dirty player. Among other things, he was accused of wearing rings as a weapon to hurt his rivals, he had a role of about four sending-offs on ten games while playing for Santos, and a really rough game while marking Boca Juniors' Román Riquelme, playing for Palmeiras, at 2001 Libertadores Cup. In the game which Palmeiras lost on penalties, being eliminated from the tournament, and Riquelme giving three sequencial hummiliating dribbles on Argel, and was stopped with fouling.
Fucks' fame stems arguably from his peculiar (at least to English-speakers) sounding name which resembles forms of the English profanity "fuck". This has lead to a variety of double-entendre headlines including an infamous one from Eurosport.com entitled "Argel Fucks off to Benfica" [3]. This headline received press coverage itself with The Register calling it "snappy and eye-catching"[4] and football humour site Laugh FC deeming it "one of the all time greats"[5].
He was also named to blogger Scaryduck's "Double-Entendre XI" with other linguistic luminaries such as Danny Shittu and Paul Dickov [6]. However the name has not always been regarding as such a laughing matter. In an article on the J-League, Andrew McKirdy noted that the signing of Fucks was a poor move and that his name "could never do much for anyone’s credibility anyways" [7]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Source: Sambafoot (English)
- ^ Source: Sambafoot (English)
- ^ Source: The Register (English)
- ^ Source: The Register (English)
- ^ Source: Laugh FC (English)
- ^ Source: Scaryduck blog (English)
- ^ Source: Japan Today (English)
