With the UEFA Champions League round of 16 fast approaching, UEFA.com explains how to say those tricky names correctly.
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London is around 150km from Calais, but the linguistic distances between English and French are huge when it comes to pronunciations, a situation which has led to generations of French Arsenal players having their names mangled on the terraces.
Héctor Bellerín – Hector Bay-air-een
Petr Čech – 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-zi…