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It turns out you have been pronouncing Pepe’s name wrong this whole time

Published 16:35 14 Feb 2017 GMT

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It turns out you have been pronouncing Pepe’s name wrong this whole time

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The Champions League is back.

The knock-out stages of Europe's top club competition resumes tonight, with Paris Saint-Germain hosting Barcelona, and Benfica playing Borussia Dortmund. To mark the return of the tournament, Uefa have compiled a helpful guide on how to correctly pronounce tricky players' names. Because, according to the association's website: "English speakers tend to mangle foreign names." They may have a point, because it turns out we have been pronouncing a number of player's names incorrectly, including Pepe. The correct pronunciation of the Real Madrid defender's name is "Pep." According to Uefa: "Pepe does not use that second vowel if you pronounce his name in Portuguese." Here's the correct pronunciation of some Madrid players' names:
Dani Carvajal – Car-va-hal Mateo Kovačić – Ko-va-chitch Toni Kroos - Crows Luka Modrić – Mod-rich Pepe - Pep James Rodríguez – Ha-mess
Here's the correct pronunciation of some Manchester City players' names. It turns out you've also been pronouncing İlkay Gündoğan's wrong.
Willy Caballero – Caba-yair-o İlkay Gündoğan - Ilk-eye Gun-doch-wan Jesús Navas – Hess-oos Bacary Sagna – Sa-nyah
And here's the correct pronunciation of Atletico Madrid's players' names, just in case Antoine Griezmann signs for Manchester United:
Nicolás Gaitán – Guy-tan Antoine Griezmann – An-twan Gree-ez-man Koke – Ko-kay Saúl Ñíguez – Sow-ool Nyee-gess Stefan Savić – Sa-vich Nicolás Schiappacasse – Ski-appa-cass-ey Šime Vrsaljko – Shee-may Ver-sal-ko

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It turns out you have been pronouncing Pepe's name wrong this whole time