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Sjoeke Nüsken – how do you actually speak that?
Sjoeke Nüsken is focused on the European Women’s European Championship. However, many fans do not know how to express their first names. The national player explains.
At the latest after the victory in the quarter-finals of the Women’s European Championship against France, everyone is talking about Sjoeke Nüsken. The German player hit head to equalize, but then failed with a penalty to the French goalkeeper. In the penalty shootout, she started again from the point – and converted this time.
But even though everyone is talking about the 24-year-old, many fans don’t know how to pronounce their name correctly. Ex-national coach Horst Hrubesch is said to have even called “small nutks”-to avoid her first name, as the footballer suspects. After all, the name Sjoeke is relatively rare and is therefore not familiar to many. “I have to correct people really often, especially with the OE,” Nüsken told ZDF.
Sjoeke Nüsken and the thing with the stretch e
Sjoeke Nüsken explains: It is a so-called stretch-e. This indicates in the German language that the vowel is pronounced for this. Often, however, misunderstandings occur and the “OE” becomes an “Ö”. Nüsken’s first name is given “Sjoooke” (to be heard in this one).
Nüsken does not disturb the fact that her name is often wrongly pronounced. “I’m fine with it. It has always been like that and I don’t think it’s bad either,” she told ZDF.
The unusual first name was her mother’s idea, revealed the international. The father would have preferred a much easier first name: Pia. Nüsken’s sisters also have names that are not exactly commonplace: Hjördis, Wenke and Mayte.
“I think it’s nice to have something special,” explains Nüsken. However, this makes it particularly complicated abroad. Nüsken has been playing at Chelsea in England for two years. There you can start with the stretch E even less than in Germany. Nüsken can therefore simply be called “Sio”.
In the future, however, the name is likely to say something more and more people – at least in this country. At the European Championship in Switzerland, Sjoeke Nüsken swings up as a leading player and fills the gap that captain Giulia Gwinn left after her injury. So football fans should hear from her more often.
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