Goleo

The World Cup 2006 mascot is called Goleo Vi. Vi is a strange name for a mascot, let alone a male one.

He is described as follows: At just 18, the rascally lion is still young but already brimming with confidence in his own abilities. He combines the looks of Lothar Matthäus, the elegance of Diego Maradona and the all-round ability of Oliver Bierhoff.

This sounds pretty dumb as is, but is much funnier when translated to and from Spanish using altavista's babelfish translation tool:

In hardly 18, rascally the lion continues being already young but brimming with confidence in its own capacities. He combines the glances of Lothar Matthäus, the elegance of Diego Maradona and the versatile capacity of Oliver Bierhoff.

Oh to have a versatile capacity.