what is for sure is that no football fan using this forum or any other would misspell iconic players names such as Ronaldo (Portuguese Cristiano or Brazilian el Fenomeno), Maradona, Pele, Cantona, Zidane, Beckham, Henry, Zola, Lampard, Gerrard, Van Basten, Maldini and others including Kevin De Bruyne and blame it on autocorrect or copy and paste. Those are probably seen by the majority as lame excuses trying to get themselves out of a situation they find themselves in.
I strongly disagree with you on this, of all the iconic names listed above, you only included De Bruyne's full name... There are certain names that always different, I'm not so sure if you're anymore involved or interested in football or NBA than I am, but what I've come to learn is than especially with first names of British or English origin, there is always difference and you occasionally find the wrong ones even big articles, we all might know De Boer, Ribery, Muller and Lampard, Kessie... Some are "Franck" and some are "Frank", some are Gerrard, some are Gerard... You might want to even check this kind of names to even see how many users have made this same mistakes.