Quizmaster: Madhavan Nampoothiri

1. FOOTBALL QUIZ
 USE OF CELLPHONES ARE NOT ALLOWED
 MARKING SCHEME WILL BE ANNOUNCED DURING PAPER CORRECTION
TIME
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2. IDENTIFY THE PLAYERS X & Y and the
football tactic Z.
 X is regarded as one of the best central mid-fielder’s in this generation.
With his pale skin, emaciated face ,long hair and swaying runs with the ball
, he bears a lot of resemblance Y in terms of playing style as well as looks.
 Because of this eerie resemblance , X is known as the “Y of Balkans”
 Y is considered as a legendary Attacking Midfielder/Football manager who
is synonymous with a very famous football playing style Z.
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3. What are we talking about?
 FORWARDS
 Sadio Mane , Gareth Bale , Graziano Pelle
 MIDFIELDERS
 Adam Lallana, Victor Wanyama, Alex Chamberlaine
 CENTER BACK
 Virgil Van Dijk , Dejan Lovren
 FULL BACKS
 Luke Shaw,Nathaniel Clyne
 Manager
 Mauricio Pochettino
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4. Identify X and the club Y.
 X is an English songwriter, singer and composer .He is considered a
“melodic genius” and has won 5 Grammys and an academy award for Best
Original Song in the animated movie , “Lion King”.
 Having supported the club Y since growing up locally , X became the clubs
chairman and director in 1976 and under his tenure, the club rose three
divisions into the English First Division , finished runner-up to Liverpool in
1983 in first division , and reached F.A cup final In 1984.
 He resigned as the clubs honorary life president in 2002.Although,X is no
longer part of the club, he is still known to do concerts for raising money
for the club!
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5. Name the award X and the newspaper
Y.
 X is a Spanish daily sports newspaper primarily focusing
on football, in particular , day to day activities of Real
Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.
 Y is an award given by the newspaper X for the top scorer
in Laliga named after a Spanish forward who played for
Atletico Bilbao.
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6. What was the celebration about and
explain?
 Switzerland Vs Serbia match in last years football world cup
was one of the most thrilling one in the tournament. Serbia
opened their account with an early goal and Switzerland tied
the score through a goal by G.Xhaka.
 Switzerland sealed the match with a goal by Xhedran Shaqiri
in the 90th minute and Xhaka and Shaqiri were celebrating in a
unique way which ended up with them getting a 2 match ban
for bringing in politics during a football match.
5

7. Identify the name of the book
 X is a work by writer N.S Madhavan which won
the Oodakuzhal award and Kerala sahitya
academy award.
 Madhavan models his protagonist, Father
Geevarghese on popular football player in the
90’s known for his high-risk playing style.
 Likewise, Father Geevarghese temporarily
abandons his cassock and saves a tribal girl
Lucie from the clutches of the trafficker Jabbar.
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8. Name the anthem.
Identify the clubs Y and Z
 “X” is one of the most famous anthems among the football community.
Initially , the song was composed by Oscar Hammerstein and Richard
Rogers for the American Musical Carousel. Frank Sinatra was the first
performer to record this song. It was popularized by Gerry and The
Peacemakers, A young British boy band which ultimately led it to the
football stadiums.
 The anthem is often attached to the club Y although it is shared by another
German Football Club Z.
 Some people mockingly argue that Y and Z have the same anthem
because human development stats are below their respective national
average , the message of hope and courage in the anthem could not have
better audiences!!
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9. CONNECT (an exhaustive list) 8

10.  Marks & Spencer Group is a major British multinational
retailer headquartered in Westminster, London that specializes
in selling high quality clothing, home products and food
product.
 During the months of June-July last year, the company
reported a 35% spike in the sales of waistcoat, especially the
navy-blue one.
 What lead to this sudden trigger in demand?
9

11. How are these players related in a
opposite way?
10

12. Identify the club name and the name
of their fan-base
 The crest features the logo of a palace colored in white in order to
symbolize victory.
 The pride, resilience, and bravery of the players and fans are represented
by a 2 headed picture of a blue gandaberunda, - a mythical two-headed
bird that is said to possess magical might-in the middle of the crest.
 The vocal support group of the group is named after their parking
position in the club stadium.
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13. FOOTBALL GLOSSARY
IDENTIFY THE PLAYING STYLE AND NAME THEIR POSITION.
DO NOT GIVE ANSWERS LIKE FORWARD,ATTACKING MIDFIELDER,FULL
BACK ETC..
THIS ROUND MIGHT GET CONTROVERSIAL BUT REMEMBER,QUIZ MASTER
IS MESSIAH.

14. Example Question.
THE RAUMDUETERS.

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17. Identify the skill move.
__X__ in Spanish means to play hooky, to skip school. The name derives from
its first documented performance by Ricardo Infante in a game between 2
Argentinian teams in 1948. The football magazine El Gráfico published a front
cover showing Infante dressed as a schoolboy with the caption "El infante que
se hizo la __X__ " (In English: "The infant plays hooky").
Another supposed origin for the name is that it is derived from the Spanish
word for tail, and that the move resembled the swishing of a cow's tail
between or around its legs
You might have seen Neymar , Ronaldinho, Di Maria, Ronaldo execute this
move.
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18. Name the manager and tactic
 This tactic is named after the manager who first started implementing this at Napoli.
 Key Features
 It is a fast paced , possession based style of attacking football often likened to a vertical
tiki-taka.
 He prefers to deploy his attack from the left flank, his most creative players
deployed on that side are in control of ball possession while his players based on the
right-hand side of the pitch mirror their movements and have a high work rate.
 Pressing high on pitch although not to be confused with gegenpressing.
 He relies on triangular passing at the back to get past the first line of opposition press
with trademark longballs from back to wings.
 Effective Central Defensive Midfielder is key for this tactic.
 Trademark Long balls out of nowhere to the wings.
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19. FOOTBALL
COMMENTATORS.

20. Identify the commentator.
 Primary commentator in the PES video game series,having also narrated
SONY’s This is Football series earlier.
 He has covered most of the premier league matches alongside Jim Beglin.
 Major games he did commentary was the Maracanã disaster of 2014 and
FIFA world cup final 2018.
 He is known as the poet of football commentary.
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22. Identify the commentator.
 He is an English football coach ,retired football player and co-owner of
salford city.
 After retiring from football in 2011,he went into punditry and was a
commentator for Sky Sports until he took over the head coach position
at Valencia in 2015.
 After being sacked by the club in 2016, he returned to his position as a
pundit for Sky Sports later that year. He was also assistant manager for
the England national team from 2012 to 2016.
 He has played for Manchester United and Everton and is the most capped
right back for England.
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24. LONG CONNECT
CONNECT THE ANSWER OF NEXT 3 QUESTIONS

25. Identify the player X and the popular
chant Y.
 Manuel Francisco de Santos simply known as X was a Brazilian right winger. He is
known for his dribbling skills which earned him names like “little bird” and “Beethoven
of football". In 1962 , when pele got injured, he carried the selecaos to WC victory and
also won the the golden boot and golden ball becoming the first person to achieve
that feat.
 His name became known all over the world during a match where his club , Botafago
was playing against riverplate at Mexico in 1958. It was as if everyone in Mexico that
day were watching a bullfight. And so the local supporters began: “Y“ they screamed
gleefully, adopting a chant from the Bullring. Every time X dribbled – they shouted “Y”
Time and again X beat his marker in his customary style. His body swinging from one
side to another, his menacing hips and dazzling toes ensuring that every attempted
tackle would prove futile. The story goes that the coach had to substitute his marker to
save him from embarrassment. As he returned back to bench , he said “There's nothing
you can do. It's impossible”
 Since that day, every time a side is in control and begin toying with the opposition, ‘Y’
echoes around the stadium – from Brazil to Bahrain, the chant has transcended
language and culture across the globe.
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26. Identify him.
 X also known as il Balilla, was an Italian football
manager and player. Throughout his career, he
played mainly for Internazionale in the 1930s,
scoring 242 goals in 365 games for the club, and
winning three Serie A titles, as well as the Coppa
Italia.
 He is widely considered one of the best players
of his generation, and among the greatest of all
time, as well as being regarded by many in the
sport as Italy's greatest ever player.
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27. Identify him
 He was a footballer who played for Real Madrid as a forward,
and is one of the most important men in Real Madrid’s
history.
 He is generally considered the one to whom much of the
credit can be given for transforming Real Madrid C.F. into the
most successful football club in Spain and in Europe. He was
the club's President for 35 years, between September 1943
and June 1978.
 In 1955, acting upon the idea proposed by
the L'Équipe journalist Gabriel Hanot and building upon
the Copa Latina (a tournament involving clubs from France,
Spain, Portugal and Italy), he met in the Ambassador Hotel
in Paris with Bedrignan and Gustav Sebes and created what
was at first a loosely constructed exhibition tournament
played among invited teams, but which over time developed
into what is today the Champions League.
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28. THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

29. ANSWERS

30. IDENTIFY THE PLAYERS X & Y and the
football tactic Z.
 X is regarded as one of the best central mid-fielder’s in this generation.
With his pale skin, emaciated face ,long hair and swaying runs with the ball
, he bears a lot of resemblance Y in terms of playing style as well as looks.
 Because of this eerie resemblance , X is known as the “Y of Balkans”
 Y is considered as a legendary Attacking Midfielder/Football manager who
is synonymous with a very famous football playing style Z.
1

31. X-MODRIC
Y-CRUYFF
Z-TOTAL FOOTBALL

32. What are we talking about?
 FORWARDS
 Sadio Mane , Gareth Bale , Graziano Pelle
 MIDFIELDERS
 Adam Lallana, Victor Wanyama, Alex Chamberlaine
 CENTER BACK
 Virgil Van Dijk , Dejan Lovren
 FULL BACKS
 Luke Shaw,Nathaniel Clyne
 Manager
 Mauricio Pochettino
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33. SOUTHAMPTON XI
All these players/manager
played/coached Suthampton
.Southampton thus being dubbed as
the “feeder club” of premier league

34. 3. Identify X and the club Y.
 X is an English songwriter, singer and composer .He is considered a
“melodic genius” and has won 5 Grammys and an academy award for Best
Original Song in the animated movie , “Lion King”.
 Having supported the club Y since growing up locally , X became the clubs
chairman and director in 1976 and under his tenure, the club rose three
divisions into the English First Division , finished runner-up to Liverpool in
1983 in first division , and reached F.A cup final In 1984.
 He resigned as the clubs honorary life president in 2002.Although,X is no
longer part of the club, he is still known to do concerts for raising money
for the club!
3

35. ELTON JOHN
WATFORD FC

36. Name the award X and the newspaper
Y.
 X is a Spanish daily sports newspaper primarily focusing
on football, in particular , day to day activities of Real
Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.
 Y is an award given by the newspaper X for the top scorer
in Laliga named after a Spanish forward who played for
Atletico Bilbao.
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37. PICHICHI TROPHY
MARCA

38. What was the celebration about and
explain?
 Switzerland Vs Serbia match in last years football world cup
was one of the most thrilling one in the tournament. Serbia
opened their account with an early goal and Switzerland tied
the score through a goal by G.Xhaka.
 Switzerland sealed the match with a goal by Xhedran Shaqiri
in the 90th minute and Xhaka and Shaqiri were celebrating in a
unique way which almost ended up with them getting a 2
match ban for bringing in politics during a football match.
5

39. They celebrated by showing the symbol of
Albanian eagle which stood for the freedom of
Kosovo which is still not recognized as an
independent state by Serbia.
Both of them were of Albanian origin.

40. Identify the name of the book
 X is a work by writer N.S Madhavan which won
the Oodakuzhal award and Kerala sahitya
academy award.
 Madhavan models his protagonist, Father
Geevarghese on popular football player in the
90’s known for his high-risk playing style.
 Likewise, Father Geevarghese temporarily
abandons his cassock and saves a tribal girl
Lucie from the clutches of the trafficker Jabbar.
6

41. HIGUITA
In this work, Madhavan models his
protagonist, Father Geevarghese,
on René Higuita, the 1990 FIFA World
Cup goalkeeper for Colombia and his
unconventional playing style whereby
he would often abandon his goalpost
and try to score goals, occupies the
priest's imagination. Likewise, he
temporarily abandons his cassock and
saves a tribal girl Lucie from the
clutches of the trafficker Jabbar

42. Name the anthem.
Identify the clubs Y and Z
 “X” is one of the most famous anthems among the football community.
Initially , the song was composed by Oscar Hammerstein and Richard
Rogers for the American Musical Carousel. Frank Sinatra was the first
performer to record this song. It was popularized by Gerry and The
Peacemakers, A young British boy band which ultimately led it to the
football stadiums.
 The anthem is often attached to the club Y although it is shared by another
German Football Club Z.
 Some people mockingly argue that Y and Z have the same anthem
because human development stats are below their respective national
average , the message of hope and courage in the anthem could not have
better audiences!!
7

44. CONNECT (an inexhaustive list) 8

45. THEY HAVE WON WORLD CUP AS
PLAYER AND MANAGER

46.  Marks & Spencer Group is a major British multinational
retailer headquartered in Westminster, London that specializes
in selling high quality clothing, home products and food
product.
 During the months of June-July last year, the company
reported a 35% spike in the sales of waistcoat, especially the
navy-blue one.
 What lead to this sudden trigger in demand?
9

47. “SOUTHGATE EFFECT”

48. How are these players related in a
opposite way?
10

49. ETO was a la Fabrica product but
played for Barcelona
Takafeso Kubo a.k.a “Japanese Messi”
was la Masia product but will be
playing for Real Madrid.

50. Identify the club name and the name
of their fan-base
 The crest features the logo of a palace colored in white in order to
symbolize victory.
 The pride, resilience, and bravery of the players and fans are represented
by a 2 headed picture of a blue gandaberunda, - a mythical two-headed
bird that is said to possess magical might-in the middle of the crest.
 The vocal support group of the group is named after their parking
position in the club stadium.
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52. FOOTBALL GLOSSARY

53. 12

54. REGISTA
 It literally means orchestrater/director

55. 13

56. FALSE 10
 The false 10 will advance along the flank and provide deliveries into the
box for teammates, or pass the ball to a free teammate who is exploiting
the newly created space, either on the wing or in the centre.
 When other forwards or false-9s draw defenders away from the false-10s,
creating space in the middle of the pitch, the false-10 will then also
surprise defenders by moving out of position once again, often
undertaking offensive dribbling runs forward, or running on to passes from
false-9s, leading to goals and assists.

57. Identify the skill move.
__X__ in Spanish means to play hooky, to skip school. The name derives from
its first documented performance by Ricardo Infante in a game between 2
Argentinian teams in 1948. The football magazine El Gráfico published a front
cover showing Infante dressed as a schoolboy with the caption "El infante que
se hizo la __X__ " (In English: "The infant plays hooky").
Another supposed origin for the name is that it is derived from the Spanish
word for tail, and that the move resembled the swishing of a cow's tail
between or around its legs
You might have seen Neymar , Ronaldinho, Di Maria, Ronaldo execute this
move.
14

59. Name the manager and tactic
 This tactic is named after the manager who first started implementing this at Napoli.
 Key Features
 It is a fast paced , possession based style of attacking football often likened to a vertical
tiki-taka.
 He prefers to deploy his attack from the left flank, his most creative players
deployed on that side are in control of ball possession while his players based on the
right-hand side of the pitch mirror their movements and have a high work rate.
 Pressing high on pitch although not to be confused with gegenpressing.
 He relies on triangular passing at the back to get past the first line of opposition press
with trademark longballs from back to wings.
 Effective Central Defensive Midfielder is key for this tactic.
 Trademark Long balls out of nowhere to the wings.
15

60. SARRI-BALL

61. Identify the commentator.
 Primary commentator in the PES video game series,having also narrated
SONY’s This is Football series earlier.
 He has covered most of the premier league matches alongside Jim Beglin.
 Major games he did commentary was the Maracanã disaster of 2014 and
FIFA world cup final 2018.
 He is known an the poet of football commentary.
16

62. PETER DRURY

63. Identify the commentator,again.
 He is an English football coach ,retired football player and co-owner of
salford city.
 After retiring from football in 2011,he went into punditry and was a
commentator for Sky Sports until he took over the head coach position
at Valencia in 2015.
 After being sacked by the club in 2016, he returned to his position as a
pundit for Sky Sports later that year. He was also assistant manager for
the England national team from 2012 to 2016.
 He has played for Manchester United and Everton and is the most capped
right back for England.
17

64. GARY NEVILLE

65. Identify the player X and the popular
chant Y.
 Manuel Francisco de Santos simply known as X was a Brazilian right winger. He is
known for his dribbling skills which earned him names like “little bird” and “Beethoven
of football". In 1962 , when pele got injured, he carried the selecaos to WC victory and
also won the the golden boot and golden ball becoming the first person to achieve
that feat.
 His name became known all over the world during a match where his club , Botafago
was playing against riverplate at Mexico in 1958. It was as if everyone in Mexico that
day were watching a bullfight. And so the local supporters began: “Y“ they screamed
gleefully, adopting a chant from the Bullring. Every time X dribbled – they shouted “Y”
Time and again X beat his marker in his customary style. His body swinging from one
side to another, his menacing hips and dazzling toes ensuring that every attempted
tackle would prove futile. The story goes that the coach had to substitute his marker to
save him from embarrassment. As he returned back to bench , he said “There's nothing
you can do. It's impossible”
 Since that day, every time a side is in control and begin toying with the opposition, ‘Y’
echoes around the stadium – from Brazil to Bahrain, the chant has transcended
language and culture across the globe.
18

66. THE PLAYER IS GARRINCHA.
THE CHANT IS “OLE OLE OLE”

67. Identify him.
 X also known as il Balilla, was an Italian football
manager and player. Throughout his career, he
played mainly for Internazionale in the 1930s,
scoring 242 goals in 365 games for the club, and
winning three Serie A titles, as well as the Coppa
Italia. He is widely considered one of the best
players of his generation, and among the
greatest of all time, as well as being regarded by
many in the sport as Italy's greatest ever player.
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68. GUISSEPE MEAZZA

69. Identify him
 He was a footballer who played for Real Madrid as a forward,
and is one of the most important men in Real Madrid’s
history.
 He is generally considered the one to whom much of the
credit can be given for transforming Real Madrid C.F. into the
most successful football club in Spain and in Europe. He was
the club's President for 35 years, between September 1943
and June 1978.
 In 1955, acting upon the idea proposed by
the L'Équipe journalist Gabriel Hanot and building upon
the Copa Latina (a tournament involving clubs from France,
Spain, Portugal and Italy), he met in the Ambassador Hotel
in Paris. with Bedrignan and Gustav Sebes and created what
was at first a loosely constructed exhibition tournament
played among invited teams, but which over time developed
into what is today the Champions League.
20

70. SANTIAGO BERNABAU YESTE.

71. AND THE LONG CONNECT ANSWER
IS…..

72. FOOTBALL STADIUMS ARE NAMED
AFTER THESE PLAYERS.
SANTIAGO
BERNABAU
SAN ZIRO OR
GUISEEP MEAZZA
Estádio Nacional
Mané Garrincha

73. BACKUP QUESTIONS 73

74. Identify this
sportswomen.
She plays for Australian
National cricket team as an all-
rounder. She also played for
the national football team as a
defender.
Astonishingly, She has
represented her country in
world cup’s for both sports.
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75. CONNECT 75