Okay I could be mistaken here, but does anyone like me who originally watched Gi joe in french remember that Quick Kick was called "Pieds d'?clairs" and not "Savata"? I know that later in '88, Light Foot who was also known then in french as "Pieds d'?clairs" was released as a figure, but this might not have been the first time that french name mix up happened anyway.
Per instance, take 87's Outback name in french: "Salvo". Nobody from Hasbro Canada really expected at that time that a character name of the same name in english would be later released in the 90's...with the name Salvo (both in english and french).
Could Quick Kick have suffered a similar fate, that is, if he was called "Pieds d'?clair" in the french cartoon?