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So my dad told me this story many years ago: The SC Freiburg had players named something like Iaschwili and Kobiaschwili, so Tobias Willi made the space between his first and last name very small on his shirt, and so some TV reporter mispronounced the name as Georgian. The German Wikipedia has a related story, but doesn't give the source for it, whereas the fans started to pronounce all players' names with a Georgian "wili" at the end, due to the high number of Georgians ending in "wili", i.e. they kind of honored their Georgian players by pronouncing even the non-Georgians with "wili". Tobias Willi obviously then must also have been pronounced that way. Possibly a source can be found for that. But I don't know much about association football except the very famous things, I'm a chess player. So I don't know if that is relevant at all. In chess it would be great team spirit if that would happen, and as such would be relevant. --Conspiration 17:58, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]