• This is a reminder of 3 IMPORTANT RULES:

    1- External self-promotion websites or apps are NOT allowed here, like Discord/Twitter/Patreon/etc.

    2- Do NOT post in other languages. English-only.

    3- Crack/Warez/Piracy talk is NOT allowed.

    Breaking any of the above rules will result in your messages being deleted and you will be banned upon repetition.

    Please, stop by this thread SoccerGaming Forum Rules And Guidelines and make sure you read and understand our policies.

    Thank you!

Quiz

Kibe Kru

Starting XI
So, here's a World Cup 2002 Quiz. I found it here. I don't have the answers to all of them, so let's just try and see if we can complete it.

1) Which player had a goal disallowed for handball in the box, although the replay showed he had trapped it with his chest?

2) Which player had a goal allowed to stand, although the replay showed he took down a defender with a shirt-pull in the buildup?

3) What feat did only the following three players perform: Henrik Larsson, Jon Dahl Tomasson, Cuauhtemoc Blanco?

4) Turkey became the first team since Bolivia in 1950 to do what?

5) Which players scored goals with both the left foot and the right foot in the same game?

6) Who got the most left-footed goals in the tournament?

7) Who was the shortest player to score on a header?

8) True or False: Michael Ballack provided the pass for 4 out of 5 of Miroslav Klose’s headed goals.

9) Which team allowed the most goals from set pieces?

10) Name all the teams who wore the exact same strip in every one of their games.

11) Of the 735 players at the tournament (Roy Keane went home), only one had his name on the back of his jersey in the following form: two words, the first being a nickname, the second being his last name. Who was it?

12) Which player celebrated a goal by taking off his jersey, revealing a jersey identical except for the name and number on the back?

13) Which player had his name misspelled on his jersey for the first game, after which it was corrected?

14) Name all the players who touched the ball before Hakan Sukur’s record-setting 11-second goal in the third-place game.

15) Which game featured the most shots?

16) Who got the first shot on goal of the tournament?

17) Jared Borgetti of Mexico scored on a memorable header against Italy. But something else about that goal was extraordinarily rare, something you might see once in a thousand goals. What was it?

18) China failed to score a goal, but they twice hit the woodwork. Name the players who did so.

19) Who is the third member of this trio: Winston Parks, Choi Yong-Soo, _____________

20) Name the player who was red-carded while on the bench.

21) Which player scored a goal that was allowed to stand, although the replay definitively showed it to be offside?

22) Which player scored a goal after a pass from a teammate deflected off three different members of the opposing team?

23) Which substitute, in his first minute of play, and with his first touches, rounded the keeper and missed an open net?

24) Which substitute saw the opposing team score on the very first kick after he entered the game?

25) True or False: no head coaches were fired during the tournament.

26) Which team held two different opponents to zero corner kicks, but won neither game?

27) Which team averaged the highest possession percentage per game?

28) When Filippo Inzaghi was called for a foul on Dario Simic in the 92nd minute of Italy-Croatia, what World Cup first was averted?

29) When Ecuador defeated Croatia, they became the first team ever to accomplish what feat?

30) Free kicks and deflected shots aside, who scored the longest-distance goal?
 

Kibe Kru

Starting XI
The answers I have so far are:
1) Wilmots (Belgium vs. Brazil)
2) Tomasson (Denmark vs. France)
8) True (The other - the fifth against Saudi Arabia - was from a Schneider cross)
11) Kily Gonzalez (Argentina)
16) El Hadji Diouf (Senegal vs. France)
18) Yang Chen (vs. Turkey) and Junzhe Zhao (vs. Brazil)
20) Caniggia (Argentina Vs. Sweden)
 


Top