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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.
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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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Q.20
 The Serbia & Montenegro team qualified at the top of their
group ahead of Spain for the 2006 WC.
 Following the events of 3rd June 2006, a week before the
WC began, the team decided to go ahead as planned which
made them the first ones to do something in World Cup
football.
 The only such instance in football in a major tournament
was in Euro 92. What unique distinction did Serbia &
Montenegro achieve because of the events of 3rd June
2006?
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 First team to represent more than one country at WC
 Serbia and Montenegro split on 3rd June 2006
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Q.21
 Jan Reker is a former PSV Eindhoven manager who started
collecting data regarding something specific in top-tier
football since the 1970s much before the statistical
explosion.
 This record-keeping soon made him much in demand
among certain people in the latter half of the 1980s. Hans
van Breukelen gives Reker credit for his incredible double-
feat in 1988. He consulted Reker before two games in the
span of a month and says Reker’s data pointed him in
the right direction in both.
 What records did Reker keep and where did van
Breukelen benefit from them?
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 Records of penalties in European top-flight
 Saved a penalty in both the 1988 European Cup final for
PSV and the Euro 88 final for Holland
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WRITTEN ROUND 4
Round on significant firsts in football
+5 for every correct answer.
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1.
 When Chima Okorie played a full season in 1991 for
Mohun Bagan, what first did he achieve for the club?
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2.
 The fa’afafine are seen as an essential part of Polynesian
culture with clearly defined roles. They are usually the
ones in the family who take care of the elders and have
nearly non-existent marriage rates.
 When a member of the fa’afafine, Jaiyah ‘Johnny’ Saelua
played for American Samoa in a World Cup qualifier in
2011, what first did this mark in football history?
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3.
 When Mo Johnston was signed for Glasgow Rangers by
their manager Graeme Souness, what first did this mark in
the documented history of Rangers?
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4.
 Which team played their first ever home game in 2008
when they faced Jordan in the Faisal Al-Husseini stadium?
This match being successfully completed also earned their
FA a FIFA Development Award for extraordinary efforts in
difficult conditions to propagate football.
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 First foreign player to play a full season
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 First transgender player to appear for a national team
 Fa’afafine are born male but identify as female
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 First Catholic to play full-time for Rangers
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 The Palestine national team
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INFINITE REBOUND 4
 7 questions anti-clockwise
 +10 / -5 on pounce.
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Q.22
 South Africa were readmitted to FIFA in 1963 despite
being expelled from the CAF. They had expressed a desire
to play qualification for the 1966 World Cup and they did
get a few games through Asia & Oceania.
 The reason FIFA gave for readmission was that South
Africa had made a commitment to FIFA to see that there
was fairness in their team selection with respect to colour.
 Peculiarly, they had spread this undertaking over two
World Cups (66 & 70). There was an uproar at the
preposterous arrangement and they were suspended
again in 1964. What was South Africa’s ‘fair’ solution?
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 Undertaking to play both black and white players except
they decided to an field entirely white squad in 1966 and
entirely black in 1970
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Q.23
 This territory with only 5000 active footballers wants to
join FIFA for a while now. They are not eligible for
membership as they don’t have a stadium to play in as a
home venue yet.
 They were ineligible for years due to the inability to do
something fundamental required by FIFA norms. When
FIFA relaxed their policy a few years back, they only had
‘full independence and a venue’ in Sepp Blatter’s words,
impeding their membership.
 Which territory and what basic necessity were they
unable to fulfil in FIFA’s previous norms?
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 Greenland
 Inability to maintain a grass pitch due to permafrost
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Q.24
 Hosting the 1950 World Cup had put a strain on the
Brazilian economy. They had constructed new stadiums
and also had to improve the infrastructure of the country.
 This meant the organizers wanted a return financially
from the World Cup. There was no television broadcasting
till the 1954 edition. In desperation, the organizers
decided to maximize their revenue and resorted to format
changes. The result was the complete opposite of the
previous two editions.
 A combination of the two has been adopted for many
years now. What did the Brazilian organizers coerce FIFA
to do?
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 No knock-out games. All matches were round-robin to
increase total matches for more gate collection.
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Q.25
 11 players died on the field when lightning struck the field
during a league game in Kasai, DR Congo.
 Fans started rioting because of this and certain
precautionary arrests were made to subdue them.
 The rioting started because of the claims of the fans that
foul play was involved despite the cause of death was
clearly being struck by lightning.
 What was the fans’ claim and what peculiarity about the
deaths made them suspicious?
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 All 11 players were from the same team
 Fans thought this was because of witchcraft
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Q.26
 One World Futbol is an outstanding initiative which
provides ethylene-vinyl acetate foam footballs, which re-
inflate on their own, to underprivileged kids all around
the world.
 The ball was named after a song by the band featuring an
artist because the founder Tim Jahnigen was provided
with R&D funding by this artist.
 Jahnigen met with the founders of a company which
polarises opinion to develop the material and make it light
and the ball also carries the typical uniform colour like the
company’s products.
 Name the artist and the company. (image follows)
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 Sting (The Police song One World)
 Crocs
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Q.27
 The Egyptian FA chose a war-torn region as their base for
the 2018 WC.
 The leader of the region decided to capitalize on the
massive goodwill generated by Mohammad Salah by
granting him honorary citizenship.
 The move was two-pronged, one of which was image
rehabilitation for the leader.
 Who is the notorious leader and why did he choose Salah
as a political tool during the World Cup?
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 Ramzan Kadyrov
 Mohammad Salah is seen as football’s ambassador to the
Muslim world, which suited Kadyrov just fine
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Q.28
 Nick Littlehales met Alex Ferguson in the mid-90s and
talked to him about a ‘performance enhancer’ largely
ignored in football till then.
 Littlehales sold products which affected this ignored
phenomenon. His name soon caught on and he was the
England team’s unofficial _____ coach and would give
seminars on how _____ was vital to a sportsperson.
 He created individual player profiles and visited players’
homes to customise the installation of his product.
 What did he sell or what is the ‘performance enhancer’?
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 Mattresses
 Sleep was the performance enhancer
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TIE-BREAKS
 The club was initially named ATK _____ (Armadni
Telovychovny Klub) when founded in 1948. Eight years
later it was renamed after a hard-fought 1944 battle on
the Eastern Front in the Carpathian mountains which
resulted in massive casualties on both sides.
 Although the country the club was formed in was a single
entity back then, it has since split. The club plays in the
league of one country whereas the actual battle took place
in the other country on the Polish border.
 Josef Masopust played for this club when he won the
Ballon D’Or in 1962. Identify the club.
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 The guy on the left plays for the La Liga club Rayo
Majadahonda. He was named after the guy on the right.
The guy on the right was idolized by his namesake’s father
when he played club football in France in the 80s. Identify
both the people pictured.
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 Dukla Prague named after the battle of Dukla Pass (which
is actually in Slovakia in the present day)
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 Enzo Zidane
 Named after Enzo Francescoli by Zizou
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