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Virgil Van Dijk only uses his first nmae on his jersey [Photo: Courtesy]
When Liverpool was in the process of securing a record-breaking signing of £75M for former Southampton defender Virgil Van Dijk, many Liverpool fans became ecstatic and rushed to the stores to purchase jerseys just to show their endorsement of the deal.
According to the British media, most of those jerseys were imprinted with player’s middle and sur name-‘Van Dijk’. However, it later turned out that the player preferred using his first name ‘Virgil’ to his father’s name ‘Dijk’.
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