World Cup emoji challenge

[Crusoe]

I was sent this. It's awful. Don't blame me.

Work out the player names. Extremely tenuous in places.

[Crusoe]

Changed to image link as I couldn't post the actual emoji.

[Kevin S]

1. Antoine Griezmann
8. Paul Pogba

[Kevin S]

24. Ilkay Gündogan

[Crystal Staples]

3 Andres Iniesta
9 Fred? (looks a bit like Freddie Mercury)
13 Sad Lion
14 Christian Eriksen

[Kevin S]

6. Lionel Messi?

[Crusoe]

Yeah, I'm working through it too.

21. Thibaut Courtois.
23. (my favourite) Girl-feet Cig-id-sun.

[Kevin S]

What are all the rings, by the way?

22. Luis Suarez?

[Crusoe]

What are all the rings, by the way?

22. Luis Suarez?

FFS. Didn't realise they hadn't come through. I'll see if I can screenshot from my phone.

[Crusoe]

https://image.ibb.co/mRtndT/emoji.png

[Kevin S]

[Kevin S]

10. Luka Modric

[Kevin S]

19. Tim O'Cahill

[Kevin S]

21. Thibault Courtois?

edit, done already, sorry.

[ad hoc]

11 David Silva

(no idea on the first pic but it must be)

[Kevin S]

18. Ro-[toilet-wizard]-dove-ski

[Kevin S]

11 David Silva

(no idea on the first pic but it must be)

Day-Vid-Silver I suppose.

[ad hoc]

Oh yes. I keep trying to read things as they are supposed to sound not how someone English would read them. See also (especially) Gundogan

[Kevin S]

5. Toni Kroos

[Kevin S]

4. Cross-tea-A-no-row-nail-dough

[Kevin S]

16. Ricardo Quaresma (Reel-car-dough-car-zeds-ma I think...)

[Kevin S]

A former World Cup star:

[spoiler]Geegee-Boo-Phone[/spoiler]

[Kevin S]

20. Angel Di Maria?

[Kevin S]

[spoiler]Pool-Gas-Coin[/spoiler]

[Kevin S]

17. Mesut Oezil (meh-seat-O-Z-ill)