Soccer Flashcards
“Total Football,” a concept that emphasized versatility and team play over a traditional rigid, ball-control style prevalent at the time, was the name given to what national soccer team’s play during the 1974 World Cup, where the country would finish as runner-up to West Germany?
The Netherlands
By far the weakest of the six international soccer confederations, the Oceania Football Confederation was dealt a blow when Australia moved to the Asian Football Confederation in 2006. That left New Zealand as the OFC’s predominant team, but New Zealand is not the most populous country in the confederation - that honor goes to what nation that, like Australia and New Zealand, is a Commonwealth Realm?
Papua New Guinea
Nigeria has won the Africa Women Cup of Nations soccer tournament all 13 times that it has been contested, with two exceptions. The Cup was won in 2008 and 2012 by what oil-rich small nation that fielded a team consisting largely of naturalized foreigners, but also a few who play in their domestic league which is known as the Liga Feminina de Primera División?
Equatorial Guinea
Of all the countries that have won the FIFA Men’s World Cup in its history (and still exist, so not including West Germany), a single one did not qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Identify that country.
Italy
The worst disaster in British soccer history occurred at this stadium in 1988. On April 15th of that year, 96 deaths and 766 injuries resulted from a human crush due to overcrowding in the stadium’s away team stands.
Hillsborough
Considered to be one of the greatest midfielders of all time, this English soccer player was part of the team that won the 1966 World Cup. That same year, he won the Ballon D’Or.
Bobby Charlton
This Buenos Aires football club is the most successful in Argentinian league history with 67 official titles.
Boca Juniors
As of 2018, this is the least populous country to ever qualify for the World Cup.
Iceland
What man, who served as the president of both FIFA and the French Football Association, is credited with founding the World Cup? The World Cup trophy that was in use from 1930-1970 was renamed to honor him in 1946.
Jules Rimet
A 1962 World Cup group stage match between Chile and Italy is commonly referred to by what three-word moniker in reference to the level of violence in the game, which included numerous punches, two send-offs, and three instances of armed police entering the field? Tensions were inflamed before the game due to Italian journalists’ insulting descriptions of the host city and retalitory, stereotypical descriptions of Italians by Chilean media.
Battle of Santiago
Who is the only player to ever score a hat trick in the World Cup final after recording one goal in regulation and two goals in extra time of the 1966 final? The first of these extra-time goals was the game winner and was controversally awarded by a linesman who signalled that the ball crossed the goal line after deflecting off the crossbar, while the final goal came as time expired.
Geoff Hurst (England)
Adidas has provided the official match ball of the World Cup since 1970. The 1970, 1974, and 2018 models were all named after what NASA satellite launched in 1962 that provided the first trans-Atlantic television signal?
Telstar
Two stadiums, which are approximately 4,800 miles apart, have hosted two World Cup final matches. Name either.
Maracana (Rio De Janeiro), Estadio Azteca (Mexico City)
What is the two-word nickname of the team that in 1990 began its tournament with an upset of the defending champion and ended it with an extra time loss to England in the quarterfinals, becoming the first African nation to reach that round?
Indomitable Lions (Cameroon)
Of the 32 teams to participate in the 2018 World Cup, two were first-time qualifiers. Name both. These nations are also connected by a 2016 international scandal that originated in one country and led to the resignation of the other’s prime minister.
Iceland, Panama
