Quiz! Can you match these 40 players to their middle name?

 The FIFA FIFPro Men's World11 Award finalist Eden Hazard of Real Madrid and Belgium poses for a portrait ahead of The Best FIFA Football Awards 2019 at Excelsior Hotel Gallia on September 23, 2019 in Milan, Italy.
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10 minutes on the clock, 40 players to guess.

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Pele was never his name, you know. Apparently, it was a mean nickname that someone gave him at school.

It worked for him, though. Over time, Edson Arantes do Nascimento made his adopted name stick and scored over 1,000 goals (well, allegedly) with that four-letter moniker on his back.

Mark Hughes takes his middle name – choosing not to be known as Leslie Hughes – while Cristiano Ronaldo is named after Ronald Reagan and could easily have taken his parents' surname Aveiro. So what about these players' full names?

We've given you 40 footballers, some with rather unusual or surprising middle names – all you have to do is tell us what they are…

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Mark White
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Mark White is the Digital Content Editor at FourFourTwo. During his time on the brand, Mark has written three cover features on Mikel Arteta, Martin Odegaard and the Invincibles, and has written pieces on subjects ranging from Sir Bobby Robson’s time at Barcelona to the career of Robinho. An encyclopedia of football trivia and collector of shirts, he first joined the team back in 2020 as a staff writer.