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FINALS
28 questions on Infinite Rebound.
4 written rounds.
Good luck.
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WRITTEN ROUND 1
 10 players have won the Ballon D’Or more than once.
 They have been arranged in 3 groups with the years they
won the award also given.
 The first group has 1 point each, second 2 points each and
the third 3 points each.
 Mark groups 1,2 & 3. Internal order doesn’t matter. +5 for
getting all 10.
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NAME YEARS WON
1) 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
2) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015
3) 1957, 1959
4) 1971, 1973, 1974
5) 1972, 1976
6) 1983, 1984, 1985
7) 1988, 1989, 1992
8) 1997, 2002
9) 1978, 1979
10) 1980, 1981
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NAME YEARS WON
1) Cristiano Ronaldo 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
2) Lionel Messi 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015
3) Alfredo Di Stefano 1957, 1959
4) Johan Cruyff 1971, 1973, 1974
5) Franz Beckenbauer 1972, 1976
6) Michel Platini 1983, 1984, 1985
7) Marco van Basten 1988, 1989, 1992
8) Ronaldo 1997, 2002
9) Kevin Keegan 1978, 1979
10) Karl Heinz Rummenigge 1980, 1981

INFINITE REBOUND 1
 7 questions clockwise.
 +10 / -5 on pounce.
 Points will be conserved.
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Q.1
 Johann Cruyff was a footballing innovator on both macro
and micro levels. As the manager of Ajax, he wanted to
maximize every action the players performed physically
on the pitch.
 He brought in Len del Ferro as a ‘breathing coach’ to teach
the players how to efficiently use their lung capacity and
other breathing techniques. He would teach them to do
this subconsciously so it wouldn’t affect their game.
 Del Ferro employed these techniques in his own primary
vocation for which he had moved from the US to Europe.
What was del Ferro’s primary job?
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 Opera singer
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Q.2
 World Cup away qualifying games have become a problem
for the team nicknamed Red Sea Boys. The FA has to
select a side after extreme vetting and background checks.
 Although there is no dearth of applicants to represent the
national side, the enthusiasm suffers a critical fall after
a qualifying game is played and the search for a new side
begins.
 The situation became so embarrassing for the nation that
it decided to pull out of qualification altogether for a few
years. Which country is this and what is the reason for
embarrassment?
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 Eritrea
 Players defect and go missing when the team visits
another country for a qualifier to escape brutal conditions
back home
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Q.3
 The image shown is that of Puget _____, where a _____ is a
large ocean inlet deeper than a bay and wider than a fjord,
although the naming doesn’t always follow these strict
conventions. This geographical feature gives its name to
an MLS club from the major American city situated closest
to the Puget _____. Name the football club.
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 Seattle Sounders
 Image is of Puget Sound
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Q.4
 Gianni Infantino has commissioned a feasibility survey for
the 2022 WC to be made a 48-team affair. It would mean
restructuring the logistics of the tournament to more than
one country because of Qatar’s inability to bear the load.
 The ulterior motive was to cause a détente in tensions
going on since 2017 and win plaudits.
 There is an overhaul of the Club World Cup proposed,
financed by a Japanese company Softbank with non-
Japanese majority investors.
 All these changes in football, because of a certain entity,
were derailed by which international incident?
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 Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
 Saudi Arabia have ‘sportswashing’ interests in these
football events
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Q.5
 Who got the job after he answered this nearly century-old
ad? How did he defy something explicitly mentioned in it?
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 Herbert Chapman
 Spent a world record sum on signing David Jack despite
explicit instructions to keep spending in check
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Q.6
 Availability heuristic is a concept where certain examples
come to a person’s mind quicker than others when the
person tries to recall or evaluate something. This is
especially important for football scouts who scour the
lower levels of football for talent.
 Analysis of a group of scouts followed in The Nowhere Men
showed that in the ’90s the lower-tier scouts suggested a
certain type of player to their manager more often than
any other, regardless of the position.
 This tendency was named after a 1953 Marilyn Monroe
movie adapted from a book/musical by Anita Loos. What
is it called?
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 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
 (Blonde players were suggested more than any others)
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Q.7
 Fluminense was founded in 1902 in a rich neighbourhood
of Rio and founding members were all wealthy whites.
The club nickname ‘po de arroz’, however, comes from a
mulatto named Carlos Alberto.
 Carlos Alberto was allowed to play in 1914 despite being
non-white but was constantly heckled by the crowd. He
was annoyed and resorted to po de arroz before one game,
which became obvious a few minutes in and the nickname
stuck.
 What did he do, which has led to a pre-game ritual with
the cosmetic variant at the Maracana?
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 Applied rice powder (po de arroz) on his face to appear
white
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WRITTEN ROUND 2
Round on nicknames in football
4 questions.
+5 for each correct answer.
Bonus +5 for getting all 4 correct.
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1.
 Which football team is nicknamed Banyana Banyana?
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2.
 New York City FC fans are called the _____ ____ because the
fans are supposed to provide the energy to the team to
perform on the field. It comes from the New York subway
system where a _____ ____ is used along the tracks to power
the trains. What is the nickname?
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3.
 Karl Heinz Schnellinger was a left back who played for
Germany in the 60s. He was known for his box-to-box
running throughout the game, consistent level of
performance and was rarely out because of injuries. These
qualities of dependability and consistency earned him
which quintessentially German nickname?
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4.
 In 1963, Dundee United hired a tar burner to melt the
snow on their ground. The burner also burned the grass
as a consequence and there were massive bald patches on
the ground.
 The directors brought in truckloads of sand and spread it
out over the ground and painted lines on it. The ground
was deemed playable and the Dundee United fans started
calling themselves _____ because their team played in the
sand.
 What were the fans calling themselves, which might not
have stuck in today’s PC age?
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 South African Women’s national team
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 Third Rail
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 Volkswagen
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INFINITE REBOUND 2
 7 questions clockwise.
 +10 / -5 on pounce.
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Q.8
 Mario Kempes was smoking a lot of cigarettes during the
1978 World Cup to cope with the pressure. His coach
Cesar Luis Menotti asked him to stop because it would
affect his stamina.
 On the night before the final the tension became too much
to bear without the release of smoking. Hector Baley,
Americo Gallego and Kempes all sneaked out of their hotel
and went to do something which they thought would calm
their nerves and is traditionally seen as meditative.
 The players returned early next morning and had a
separate breakfast from the rest of the team. What did
Kempes do to calm himself?
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 Went fishing
 (they had the fish they caught for breakfast next morning)
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Q.9
 Whenever Iceland were trying to qualify for any major
football tournament, the country was termed to be
gripped with __________ fever. The team was not expected to
do well but was still followed obsessively despite the
inevitable disappointment.
 This mirrored Iceland’s journey in __________ where there
was widespread interest and hopes of doing well which
never manifested to anything.
 In a curious connection between the two, Iceland
goalkeeper Hannes Halldorsson was involved with the
non-footballing project in 2012 in his videographer day-
job capacity. Fill in the blank.
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 Eurovision
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Q.10
 China is building a football-industrial complex with a
massive $850 billion to be invested by 2030. Things
weren’t quite as rosy for football in the People’s Republic
in the 20th century.
 When Rowan Simons, author of Bamboo Goalposts, wanted
to go for a kickabout after moving there in 1987, he found
nobody playing football. When he wanted to start an
amateur tournament, local participants demurred citing a
rule.
 He claims that this rule is why Chinese sport has excelled
in individual pursuits but hasn’t done well in football or
hockey. What government rule?
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 A gathering of 10 or more people wasn’t allowed without
government sanction
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Q.11
 Christopher Steele is a former MI6 agent who was tasked
to collect intelligence on rival bids to ‘England 2018’ after
England lost out.
 His investigation blew open the massive scandal
concerning buying of votes and corruption in FIFA, where
he also worked with the FBI.
 In 2015-6, his network in the region of interest caused 2
rival American clients to hire his firm to investigate
something which has since caused significant
ramifications in America.
 What was he hired to investigate?
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 Trump collusion with Russia
 (He was hired by a Republican magazine as well as the
Democrats to investigate it because of his work in Russia
after they won the 2018 WC bid)
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Q.12
 Luis Monti, Ferenc Puskas, Jose Santamaria, Jose Altafini,
Dejan Stankovic and X are the only players to have done it
in the history of the World Cup.
 X, a rare Barcelona as well as Real Madrid star, is the only
player to have taken it a notch above the rest. Identify X
and his achievement.
 (image follows)
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 Robert Prosinecki
 Only person to score for 2 different countries in the WC
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Q.13
 Marcelo Bielsa is the high priest of off-the-ball pressing
and expects his players to have an excellent work ethic.
 He achieved the pinnacle of this philosophy when he
found an unusual solution to the goal kick problem
(whether to hoof it up the field or play it short and start a
move) as manager of Newell’s Old Boys.
 Such was his conviction in his way of playing that he asked
goalkeeper Norberto Scoponi to do something careless at
face value but would ultimately result in a positive for his
team. What exactly did Bielsa tell Scoponi to do?
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 Bielsa asked Scoponi to hit the ball for a throw-in in the
opponent’s half so that the players could achieve a
turnover higher up the field.
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Q.14
 In the 1990 WC, Costa Rica suddenly changed their jersey
after one game. Their oldest club Libertad had gone out of
business and they used jerseys based on Libertad’s in the
World Cup. This was ostensibly the reason but was really a
ploy for something else.
 The 2014 WC away jersey for Germany also had similar
reasons behind its design but all that was forgotten after
they mauled Brazil 7-1 in the semis wearing that kit.
 What was the reason behind these changes/designs?
 (image follows)
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 Kits similar to local clubs to garner local support
 (Germany like Flamengo and Costa Rica like Juventus)
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WRITTEN ROUND 3
Round on sponsorship in football
4 questions.
+5 for each correct answer.
Bonus +5 for getting all 4 correct.
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1.
 Atletico Madrid had a curious sponsorship deal in 2003
with Columbia Pictures. The deal soon annoyed the fans,
especially memorabilia collectors, who had to keep up
with the frequent changes to the jerseys that were
demanded of the club by the sponsors. What change?
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2.
 In 1973, Eintracht Braunschweig circumvented a ban on
companies sponsoring jersey logos in an innovative way
and became the first Bundesliga club to sport a sponsor
logo.
 Which well known German company was their sponsor
and how did they circumvent the sponsor ban by putting
pragmatism ahead of club history?
 (image follows)
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3.
 Jersey sponsorship in football has had little to do with the
arts; however, Sheffield Wednesday once displayed which
of Salvador Dali’s works on the front of their jersey?
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4.
 Hamilton Academical are a Scottish football club who play
in the HopeCBD stadium. This has caused a controversy
among the supporters, some of whom claim it isn’t
morally right for the Accies to play in a stadium sponsored
by such a company.
 There are others who say that the players themselves
would never be able to use any of the sponsor’s product
and the deal makes business sense. What sort of products
does HopeCBD sell?
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 Advertise the newest Columbia movie that was releasing
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 Jaegermeister
 Changed club logo to the Jaegermeister logo
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 Cannabis based products
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INFINITE REBOUND 3
 7 questions anti-clockwise.
 +10 / -5 on pounce.
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Q.15
 In the 2005 derby, Paolo Di Canio celebrated a goal with a
fascist salute and grabbed the headlines across European
football and caused scandal.
 There were rumours that he did it for Alessandra Floriani,
a former actress and local politician who was present at
the game and because of the club he was playing for.
 Floriani stoked the fire when she stated “How nice it was.
It delighted me very much. I shall write him a thank you
note.”
 Why did Floriani’s quote exacerbate an already bad
situation?
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 Floriani is the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini
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Q.16
 The continental football clubs in Europe were thought to
play an inferior brand of football in the early 20th century
compared to the English clubs. Britishers were in much
demand as coaches to impart discipline to the continental
game.
 In Spain, such coaches were especially revered after Fred
Pentland won titles with Athletic Bilbao. A remnant of this
respect earned by early British coaches can be seen in
Spanish football through a certain form of addressing
even today. What?
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 Managers are called ‘mister / el mister’
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Q.17
 The Taylor report looked into the causes of the Hillsborough
disaster in 1989 and made recommendations to avoid similar
occurrences in the future.
 One recommendation to make something mandatory was met
with resistance by the clubs. This would mean changes to the
stadium and would jack up ticket prices which meant fans
would be unhappy.
 The Football Spectators Act formalized this suggestion which
made something mandatory for all First Division clubs, but the
lower divisions were exempt initially because of lack of
necessary funds. What was the Taylor report recommendation?
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 All-seater stadiums or ban on standing terraces
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Q.18
 When Udinese made a $4 million offer for Zico in 1983, he
accepted and chose them over Roma and AC Milan. The
bigger clubs were unhappy about this and pressured the
FIGC to block the transfer asking for financial guarantees.
 The city of Udine rioted against this development and
made a slogan ‘O Zico O _______’ which was a double-
layered threat.
 One was an obvious footballing threat but acted as a
synecdoche for the north-eastern region of Friuli,
tracing back to the ramifications of the Treaty of Campo
Formio in 1797 which was signed by Napoleon and
Philipp von Cobenzl. What was the layered threat?
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 O Zico O Austria
 Udinese threatened to join the Austrian league which
echoed back to their history of being a part of Austria as
per the treaty.
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Q.19
 The Argentine club Independiente have the unique
honour of something in the footballing world. When the
club claimed it, their own fans remained skeptical.
 The person whose action put their colours in an unusual
place himself confirmed the story. The club, as a grateful
gesture, made him and two others honorary members.
 The person also wanted a football but wasn’t allowed by
the government agency he worked for because it was un-
American.
 Who is this and what did he do for Independiente?
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 Neil Armstrong
 Took Independiente’s pennant on the moon
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