World Cup Nicknames

With the world coming together in the name of football, Kathryn Rathke has done a bit of her own player analysis.

Kathryn says "I drew these as a way of legitimizing my World Cup obsession. Ozil and Balotelli have such interesting facial features they make my hand twitch with the need to draw them. Robben is so deeply maligned, I had to draw him with a sneer. Ochoa; an astounding new hero! The captions are just for fun; Falcao’s is the only one that was real at the time of composing, although Robben’s is not far off if you watch his left arm as he is running, and Suarez, well, "Chupacabra" may well be his new nickname…"