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Soccer quiz

This document contains a soccer quiz with multiple choice questions about players, events, and facts related to the FIFA World Cup. It includes 20 questions about various World Cup stats and trivia, such as players who have scored hat tricks or the first goal in multiple World Cup tournaments. The questions are identified only by number and players or events are only identified in the answers.

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Soccerocker Quiz Name – Senthil Kumar (Dunga) Interests – All Sports, Scrabble, Bridge, reading, films, Mafia Wars Loves – Football, Scotch Whiskey, Arguments Hates – Farmville, GV Menon, Pseudo-Geek Quizzing
Rules… Only to amuse myself Infi bounce 10 for all and all for 10
Q1 Neil van Schalkwyk, the co-owner of Masincedane Sport, won the SAB KickStart Award in 2001 for this. “ It is a needless distraction” – Ronaldo “ It is an expression of Joy” – Organizer What?
 
A1 The cursed Vuvuzela!!!
Q2 The year was 1930 - USA vs Argentina The US trainer rushes on to the field to help a player but is unconscious and is carried off Funda?
 
A2 He ran on to the field to help an injured player, dropped a bottle of chloroform, inhaled the fumes and had to be carried off.
Q3 The guy is Johan Neeskens (Holland). His penalty in 1974 final vs Germany is unique apart from being the first penalty in a WC final what?
 
A3 This was until then… Earliest goal in a Final. Only goal scored before a touch of the ball by any opponent player
Q4 Identify and put funda
 
A4 One of the most infamous incidents in WC history. Germany’s GK Harald “Toni” Schumacher knocks down France’s Patrick Battiston. He had a broken neck, two broken teeth, and would have died if first aid had been delayed a few minutes. The referee awarded a free kick to Germany after the incident!!!
Q5 Identify and connect..
 
A5 Mario Zagallo & Franz “the Kaiser” Beckenbauer Only two who have won the cup as player/coach
Q6 Stefan Effenberg - German-Bayern-playmaker. He was sent out of 1994 WC for an unusual reason.. what?
 
A6
Q7 Identify and connect
 
A7 Dead by his “own” deed…. Andres Escobar paid with his life when he scored an own goal against USA. John Harkes, the guy on the right is the one who crossed the ball which Escobar pushed into his own net.
Q8 He is Gabriel Batistuta aka “Batigol” – Argentina – Fiorentina He scored a hatrick both in 1994 & 98 WCs. What is unique about them? (3 in fact…)
 
A8 Both on June 21 (1994/98). Both opponents were world cup debutantes Greece, Jamaica. In each case, third goal was a penalty.
Q9 ID and info
 
A9 Lucien Lauren scorer of the first goal in WC (1930) “ We were playing Mexico and it was snowing, since it was winter in the southern hemisphere. One of my team mates centred the ball and I followed its path carefully, taking it on the volley with my right foot. Everyone was pleased but we didn't all roll around on the ground – nobody realised that history was being made. A quick handshake and we got on with the game. And no bonus either; we were all amateurs in those days, right to the end”
Q11 After the semifinal against England in 2002, Ronaldo (the original not the traitor!) changed his hairstyle….. Why?
A11 His son Ronald mistook Roberto Carlos to be his dad due to the similarity of the hairstyles!!!!!
Q12 "Valdemar de Brito" was a Brazilian player who was the first to _____________ in 1934. But he is known for another reason which was also his redemption what?
 
A12 His was the first penalty miss WC history. He is better known for having discovered and nurtured …. Edson Arantes de Nascimento
Q13 Nicknamed “Maradona of the Carpathians” who is he?
 
A13 Georghe Hagi (Romania – Real – Barca – et al)
Q14 Connection..
 
A14 Oleg Salenko – Most goals in a game (5) Geoff Hurst - Most goals in a final (3) Just Fontaine - Most goals in a tournament (13) Ronaldo - Most goals (15)
Q15 Scotland in 1974 Brazil in 1978 England in 1982 Cameron in 1982 Belgium in 1998 What gives?
 
A15 Each Country was unbeaten but never the champion in that final!! Scotland in 1974 (1 win, 2 draws) Brazil in 1978 (4 wins, 3 draws) England in 1982 (3 wins, 2 draws) Cameroon in 1982 (3 draws) Belgium in 1998 (3 draws).
Q16 Multiple Connects
 
A16 Norman Whiteside – Youngest player to play in WC Roger Milla oldest Roger Milla oldest to score in WC Pele youngest Pele youngest champion team member Dino Zoff oldest
Q17 Funda?
 
A17 First world cup balls 1930. Teams wanted to play with balls made in their own country and often tossed for that privilege. Because of a dispute 2 were used in 1930 between Argentina and Uruguay, one in each half (Left – Arg, Right – Uru)
Q18 Id and connect to WC
 
A18 Placido Domingo, the operatic tenor – Singer of “Mundial” WC song of 1982 Spain
Q19 The guy is Bora Milutinovic. What is his distinction wrt WC?
 
A19 Coached in every tournament between 1986 and 2002 - but for different teams: 1986 – Mexico 1990 – Costa Rica 1994 – USA 1998 – Nigeria 2002 - China
Q 20 Better known by his nickname which means “Dopey,” the smallest of the 7 in Snow White and Seven Dwarves in Portuguese who ? Middle names “ Caetano Bledorn Verri”
 
A Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri aka DUNGA!!!!
 
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MVC ANSWER They scored the first goal in each of the WC. Here is the list with names which have no pics. 1930 –Lucien Laurent – (France) 1934 – Ernesto Belis (Argentina) 1938 –Josef Gauchel (Germany) 1950 –Ademir Marques de Menezes – (Brazil) 1954 –Milos Milutinovic (Yugoslavia) 1958- Omar Oreste Corbatta (Argentina) 1962 –Hector Facundo (Argentina) 1966 – Sigfried Held (W.Germany) Pele (Brazil) 1970 - Dinko Dermendzhiev (Bulgaria) 1974 –Paul Brietner (Germany) 1978 – Bernard Lacombe (France) 1982 – Erwin Vandenbergh(Belgium) 1986 –Alessandro Altobelli (Italy) 1990 –Francois Omam-Biyik (Cameroon) 1994 –Juergen Klinsmann (Germany) 1998 –Cesar Sampaio (Brazil) 2002 –Bouba Diop (Senegal) 2006 –Phlipp Lahm (Germany) 2010 –Tshabalala – (South Africa)
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