1) The document provides 25 questions for a quiz with answers to follow. It notes that questions 11-20 are starred and that participants get +1 point for every correct answer with no negative marking. 2) It begins with background on Narcis de Carreras, the first president of FC Barcelona, and his symbolic acceptance speech given in Spanish despite the law requiring Catalan at the time. 3) The questions cover a range of topics in football including players, clubs, tournaments, venues, and quotes. The document provides clues and questions looking for names, places, phrases and other key details.

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2. Prelims
• 25 questions.
• +1 for every correct answer, no negative
marking.
• Questions 11-20 are starred.

3. 1. Narcis de Carreras, a Catalan nationalist
on being elected Barça president in 1968,
gave his acceptance speech in Spanish, as
mandated by law. To ensure the law was
obeyed and nothing ‘subversive’ said, a
govt. official sat by his side.
However, Carreras very skilfully included a
phrase that would in time symbolise the
Club. What phrase?

4. Answer follows….

5. Also, points for “More Than A Club”

6. 2. Arena Garibaldi is home to a side established in 1909, currently in Serie C. The
club had it’s heydays in the 80s. Just tell me where has this pic been taken from.
Or alternatively, the club. (Bigger pic on next slide.)

8. Answer follows….

10. 3. Indian footballers as brand ambassadors is a rare sight. Name this man endorsing
Royal Enfield.

11. Answer follows….

12. Bruno Coutinho

13. 4. When River Plate acquired Bernabé
Ferreyra for a record transfer fee of
$35,000 in 1931, an appropriate
nickname stuck with them.
Which one?

14. Answer follows….

15. Los Millonarios (The Millionaires)

16. 5. On the last day of the CONCACAF WC
qualifiers, after Costa Rico defeated
Mexico, Panama needed to beat US to
reach the playoffs. They looked on course
to do so until stoppage time goal by this
guy sent Mexico through.
Afterwards, Mexicans showered him with
all sorts of gifts and tributes; sending him
sombreros, depicting him as saint, offering
free vacations for life and what not.
Just name him.

17. Answer follows….

18. Graham Zusi

19. 6. He was not allowed on the first team because of his age (as he could not
sign a professional contract) so his parents had to agree every time he started
or was in the team for a game.
Debuting at the age of 16 years and 334 days, and scoring at 17 years and 82
days , he became the youngest debutante and goal scorer in Bundesliga.
Who?

20. Answer follows….

21. Nuri Şahin

22. 7. In October last year, after he lost his battle with cancer at the age of 59 one
of his players Souleymane Camara paid him the following tribute:
“More than a coach, he was a big brother to us, what I liked about him above
all was that when we needed to work, we worked, but when we needed to
have fun, we had fun too.”
Name the man who propelled a bunch of unknowns into celebs.

23. Answer follows….

24. Bruno Metsu

25. 8. As part of 150 years of FA festivities, this ground hosted it’s first ever football
match, played between Civil Service FC and Polytechnic FC. Which was the
debuting venue?
(bigger pic on the next slide)

27. Answer follows….

28. Lawn of the Buckingham Palace

29. 9. Interestingly, Nigeria have won all four U17 World Cups held in Asian
countries including last year’s held in the UAE. Though, there is only one
Asian nation to have won the tournament, way back in 1989, in Scotland.
Which team?

30. Answer follows….

31. Saudi Arabia

32. 10. This guy named Efraín Araneda, of Chilean descent, was Fernando Torres’s
tour guide during his honeymoon in 2007. Why is he relevant in this quiz?

33. Answer follows….

34. Torres went to Tahiti for his honeymoon, his tour guide was a member of Tahiti
national squad when they faced Spain among others in the FIFA Confederations Cup.

35. 11. The guy above retired in 2012 after about 14 years in
English lower League football.
During his time at Rushden & Diamonds it came out that
he had an affair with the partner of teammate Dale
Roberts (the guy below). Roberts later committed
suicide. The inquest revealed that the goalkeeper had
taken the drastic step after struggling to come to terms
with an injury and national media speculation about his
fiancée's affair.
Name the guy above.

36. Answer follows….

37. Paul Terry was merely continuing a family tradition.

38. 12. G.R. Naidoo was Mahatma Gandhi’s long-time collaborator in South Africa
and instrumental in founding of ingeniously named Passive Resisters Soccer
Club. Ultimately, from the ashes of these Indian community football teams,
Naidoo went on to establish a professional outfit in 1928, in Durban.
This club went on to become the inaugural champions of South Africa’s Premier
Soccer League in 1996/97. The club later folded up.
What was it’s name?

39. Answer follows….

41. 13. Angel de Maria after playing a World Cup qualifier at which notorious venue?

42. Answer follows….

43. Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia. Altitude of 3,637 metres (11,932 feet)
above sea level. Players can often be seen short of breath after a few runs.

44. 14. X is an equivalent of the North American "cowboy". Like the word cowboy,
the term often connotes the 19th century more than the present day;
then Xs made up the majority of the rural population, herding cattle, and
practicing hunting as their main economic activities. Though it has now become
a common denomination of the current inhabitants of Rio Grande do Sul.
Who is the most famous of this lot, who recently made it to an exclusive list,
now comprising of 7 members? Which list?

45. Answer follows….

46. Ronaldinho Gaúcho (real name Ronaldo de Assis Moreira), whom commentators
started calling Ronaldinho since there was already a Ronaldo on the team, and
Gaúcho as he is from Rio Grande do Sul.
He became the seventh player to win UCL plus Copa Libertadores. Others are Dida,
Cafu , Roque Junior, Carlos Tevez, Walter Samuel and Juan Pablo Sorin.

47. 15. Which famous quote by the man on the left involving the fellow on the
right gets lampooned every transfer window?

48. Answer follows….

49. Jack Walker, the then Blackburn owner refused manager Kenny Dalglish’s request to
sign Zinedine Zidane from Bordeaux with the following words:
"Why do you want to sign Zidane when we have Tim Sherwood?"

50. 16. Two Dutch clubs have royal patronage.
First one is Koninklijke HFC, the oldest club in Dutch
history, founded in 1879.
The other club was founded in 1883.
In 1978, Queen Juliana granted the club royal
patronage, because of its pioneering role in the
formation of the Royal Dutch Football
Association(KNVB) in 1889. It is also the fourth most
successful club in Dutch league with 10 titles.
Both are now amateur clubs.
Name the bottom one.

51. Answer follows….

52. HVV Den Haag (Haagse Voetbal Vereniging: Dutch for Hague Football Club)

53. 17. During his tennis career he finished as the second most successful member of
his Davis Cup team, playing 43 ties between 1992 and 2002 and compiling a 12–
31 record in singles, 12–16 in doubles. He also appeared twice on the ATP tour,
losing each time in his first round matches in St. Pölten in 1995 and in Doha in
2001. He reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 995 in late 2002.
Whose rather unimpressive professional tennis career?

54. Answer follows….

55. Nasser Al-Khelaifi

56. 18. He is the only Austrian to have finished
in the top 3 of Ballon d’Or, achieving the
feat when he finished second in ’78 behind
Kevin Keegan.
That same year he helped Austria qualify
for their first World Cup and in what is
known as “Miracle of Cordoba”, scored the
winning goal in the 3-2 win over Germany,
which was Austrian’s first win over
Germans in 47 years. Who?

57. Answer follows….

58. Hans Krankl

59. 19. Nicknamed “double wide” for his
coverage of the pitch.
He played the first WC final with his
native Argentina, which they lost
to Uruguay; and the second with Italy
in 1934, winning 2-1 against
Czechoslovakia, thereby becoming the
only player to have played in two WC
finals with different teams. Who?

60. Answer follows….

61. Luis Monti

62. 20. This Arthur Hopcraft book released
in 1968 is repeatedly quoted as the best
book ever written about football. It is a
definitive, magisterial study of football
and society.
A recent book in similar vein by Simon
Kuper pays tribute to this book by
sporting an identical name.
Name the two books.

63. Answer follows….

65. 21. Connect the two images.

66. Answer follows….

67. Bangalore Palace, and Gandaberunda (also known as the Berunda) a two-headed
mythological bird of Hindu mythology used as the official emblem by
the Karnataka government, together appear here:

68. 22. Just before the tournament
began, first-choice centre-forward
Rene Bliard walloped the ground
when he went to strike the ball, hurt
his ankle and had to be sent home.
The reserve stepped up and became
a legend. The reserve?

69. Answer follows….

70. Just Fontaine

71. 23. Greenpeace activists have been protesting fervently against which company’s
sponsorship of the Champions League?

72. Answer follows….

73. Gazprom

74. 24. The club's original ground was in a working class area which was home to
a number of mattress factories. To cut cost of shirt production the
management found a simple solution by buying cheap material that was used
to make the mattresses, and then got local women to make the team's shirts,
hence earning the team’s nickname – The Mattress Makers.
Which team?

75. Answer follows….

76. Atlético Madrid (Los Colchoneros)

77. 25. David on the left. On the right?

78. Answer follows….

79. Marcelo Lippi