With the UEFA Champions League final on the horizon, UEFA.com gives all you commentators and armchair pundits alike the perfect guide on how to say those tricky names correctly.

The Italian 'ch' is more like a 'k' for English speakers, whereas the Croatian 'ć' is an English 'ch'. Gonzalo Higuaín's name has three vowels in a row – a red light for English speakers – but can be anglicised elegantly enough. Croatia is just across the Adriatic from Italy, so imagine Marco Pjaca's name as an Italian 'piazza' and you will be pretty much there.

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Andrea Barzagli – Bar-za-lyee

Mehdi Benatia – Ben-at-ear

Gianluigi Buffon – Boo-fon

Giorgio Chiellini – Kee-ell-ee-nee

Gonzalo Higuaín – Ee-gway-een

Stephan Lichtsteiner – Lischt-schtyn-er

Mario Mandžukić – Man-joo-kitch

Claudio Marchisio – Mar-kee-sio

Marko Pjaca – Pee-at-za

Miralem Pjanić – Pee-ah-nitch

Pepe does not use that second vowel if you pronounce his name in Portuguese, while the 'oo' in Toni Kroos's surname does not sound like English speakers would like it to. The Colombian pronounciation of the common English first name 'James' is also markedly different.

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Karim Benzema – Ben-zi-mah

Dani Carvajal – Car-va-hal

Fábio Coentrão – Kwen-trow (rhymes with cow)

Mateo Kovačić – Ko-va-chitch

Toni Kroos – Crows

Luka Modrić – Mod-rich

Pepe – Pep

James Rodríguez – Ha-mess

Lucas Vázquez – Vath-kess