Phillips said:why is Jose Riena called 'Pepe' Riena?
Good question.
Dont know if its true but I was told once that its just a translation of Jose to English.
Story I got spun was the Spanish do it with a few of their names.
Cant really remember but it was something like Danni can be Danny.Mikel can be Michael(these are just made up by me so they arent the Spanish translation but I hope you get what I mean).
He wants to be known as Pepe instead of Jose so thats what he gets.
http://www.answers.com/topic/spanish-spoken-in-chile
Half way down the page at the end of miscellaneous.
Heard once it was his dad(who was an international for Spain)used/had the same nickname(his name was different-not Jose) so I have my doubts.