Bulgarian football star Hristo Stoitchkov might become "pot bellied, balding restaurateur or the owner of a sleazy nightclub" according a correspondent of the Times that considered naming her baby after the footballer. Photo by Sofia News Agency
Bulgarian football star Hristo Stoitchkov might become "pot bellied, balding restaurateur or the owner of a sleazy nightclub" according a correspondent of the Times that considered naming her baby after the footballer.
The Times correspondent Alyson Rudd pointed out that she was willing to name her baby after the famous Bulgarian footballer, now coach of Bulgaria's team, but underlining that she is now thankful that she decided not to call her first-born Hristo.
The first bump in my tummy was affectionately called Hristo. Hristo Stoitchkov, was, at that time, my very favourite player, Rudd wrote. She pointed out that her mother tried to make her change her mind. "How sweet, who is this Hristo again? Bulgarian? Oh. Let's hope it's a girl, unless . . . you wouldn't would you?"
Alyson Rudd underlined that she didn't name her newborn after the Bulgarian "mainly because someone pointed out that Hristo might well, by the time my son was 15, be a pot bellied, balding restaurateur or the owner of a sleazy nightclub."
The thing is, you never know what players will do next. And if they do nothing, they will end up porky and red nosed with a bad taste in suits. My Hristo was, for a few days, almost Stan, after Stan Collymore. What a mistake that would have been, on so many levels, the article reads on.
Rudd also gave a few more examples of people who named their children after prominent footballers contemplating over the effects such act might have on the child's future.