Rejoice - Victory

Image credit - TimesOfMalta

Millions watched
Ball shook the net
A nation rejoiced

Answers - FIFA World cup 2010 quiz

Here are the answers for the World cup 2010 quiz posted earlier in my blog.

Q1 –
It’s the logo of Merlin Entertainments Group. This group is the owner of the Sea Life Center of Oberhausen which is the host to the octopus - Paul.

Q2 –
Before the tournament had even started, the Vuvuzelas already had a nickname in Germany.
"Uweseela", named after former German international Uwe Seeler.
Seeler reached the final of the World Cup in 1966 with Germany.

Q3 -
These are the only 2 "own" goal scorers of this world cup.
Danish, Daniel Agger scored for the Dutch in Denmark’s 2-0 loss.
South Korean, Park Chu Young scored for Argentina in Korea's 4-1 loss.

Q4 –
They are the Palacios brothers. First time 3 brothers played in the same world cup and for same country – Honduras.
Wilson PALACIOS,Jerry PALACIOS,Jhony PALACIOS

Q5 –
It’s K’naan – the composer of the “Waving flag” – Coke’s anthem for worldcup.
Listen to the original song..Very inspirational. The song can be the story for a movie.

Q6 -
It is the late Dani Jarque.
Immortalised by Iniesta in the finals of WC2010 by the Tshirt caption - "Dani Jarque siempre con nosotros" (which means "Dani Jarque always with us")

FIFA World cup 2010 quiz

The world cup is over. Did you watch it well?
After the pre-world cup quiz, here is a quiz on this edition of FIFA world cup.

Q1 – What’s the connection to FIFA world cup 2010?

Q2 - Explain the connection

Q3 - What is their claim to fame?

Q4 - Who and what record did they make?

Q5 - Identify this guy

Q6 - Who and Why is he in this World cup quiz?

What was missing in this world cup?

Many of us missed the goals from Rooney, Messi, Ronaldo, Kaka. Media has starting writing about the curse of Number 10. But these are part of the actual football on field activities.

Off the field there are many things that catch main news space during the world cup. Some common ones which did not make news in this edition of FIFA world cup –

• Crazy hair styles of players
• Big discount sales on electronics in India
• Naked fan invasion to the ground
• English fans hooliganism
• Special delicacies based on the theme of world cup

• Messi mixture
• Lipi lolly
• Robben roti
• Villa vada
• Forlan faluda
• Puyol Palav

And

• Paul payasam

But the missing things were compensated by -

• Haunting music of Vuvuzela (did you realize that the logo of this world cup has vuvuzela in it?)
• Octopus predictions
• French revolution against their coach
• Debate on use of Technology
• The Jabulani ball

Football World cup quiz - Answers

Here are the answers to the quiz posted earlier in my blog.

Answer Q1 -

Man in black and white- Jules Rimet

The man kissing the world cup - Silvio Gazzaniga

Silvio Gazzaniga is the artist who designed and created the FIFA World Cup Trophy.

Before the FIFA world cup trophy was designed, the winners were given the Jules Rimet trophy. Jules Rimet is in many ways considered as the brain behind the competition.

 

Answer Q2 -

Serbia's Bora Milutinovic and Brazil's Carlos Alberto Parreira

These are the only 2 coaches who have coached 5 different countries to the world cup.

Bora - Mexico (1986), Costa Rica (1990), the United States (1994), Nigeria (1998), and China (2002).

Parreira - Kuwait in 1982, United Arab Emirates in 1990, Brazil in 1994 and 2006, Saudi Arabia in 1998 and South Africa in 2010.

 

Answer Q3 -

 These are the only 4 players who got red card in finals of world cup.

The first 3 were caught kicking.

The 4th guy - Zidane was an intelligent player, so used his head!

Watch them achieve this feat.

France - Desailly (4:20 to 4:40) - 1998 finals

Argentina - Pedro Monzon - 1990 finals

Argentina - Gustavo Dezotti - 1990 finals

France - Zidane - 2006 finals

 

 

Answer Q4 -

The cartoon character is "Sport Billy"

From wiki - Sport Billy was adopted by FIFA as the Fair Play Mascot for Soccer World Cups, and a trophy of the character was presented to the most sporting team at each World Cup. The character was used as a mascot in many sporting youth programs internationally, promoting sportsmanship and fair play.

 

Answer Q5 -

I wanted to cover the conterversies of world cup....

Perhaps you have heard about fan riots, player killing, a war because of world cup. Here's another conterversy.

In the picture - A person wearing the patriotic orange Lederhosen(also called Leeuwenhosen...he is most likely a Dutch fan)

Dutch fans generally wear this when their country takes to field.

 

In WC 2006, Dutch fans were asked to strip the Leeuwenhosen before entering the stadium. Why?

Because this orange peice of garment had "Bavaria" written on it. This was against the sponsorship deal of FIFA. Budwieser was the official beer partner of FIFAworld cup and "Bavaria" is a rival Dutch beer company which has no sponsorship contract with FIFA. More than 1000 fans watched Holland's 2-1 victory over Ivory Coast, in their undies. (Now you know what this picture symbolises)

Now the Bavaria Leewenhosen is a collector's item. If you have one, it may be worth a million when the dutch win the cup!

Full story here

 

Bavaria has caused yet another conterversy in this edition of world cup. Now with miniskirts.

 

Answer Q6 -

These are the names of the football used in different editions of the world cup.

The list is complete with 

• Teamgeist
• Jabulani

Enjoy the football season....

Football World cup quiz

Q1

 

Q2

Q3

Q4

Q5

1. Identify the gentlemen. Why are they part of World cup quiz?
2. What record connects the 2 gentlemen?
3. Connect the 4 players
4.  What is the contribution of this cartoon character to the football world cup?
5. Explain - In the context of world cup.
6. Complete the series
   • tango
   • asteca
   • estrusco
   • questra
   • tricolore
   • fevernova
   • __________
   • __________ 
    

1st weekend of football world cup 2010

As the dark continent turned bright for the world's most watched sporting event, here are a few thoughts about the play.

 

Real Madrid latest buy - Vincent Enyeama?

Nigeria would have lost by 5 goals if their goalie Enyeama did not produce a match saving performance. He stood between Messi and goal atleast 5 times. Superb saves. The bosses at Real Madrid must now be thinking of getting Enyeama into Bernabeu. At-least then Real can thinking of stopping Barca's ace striker - Messi.

 

No Greenery in England

Reports of Robbery of Greens have been increasing in England. Interestingly the same reports are coming from USA. Analysts at Gopadi institute found the reason. English guys are on a killing spree on whatever is Green after Green robbed them of a victory against USA. In the USA, Green is the national hero. So anything Green is being robbed and saved as memorabilia of their 1-1 draw against the friendly enemies - Brits.

 

Pole - The last man standing

After Tshabalala goal of the tournament (so far) followed by the dance of the tournament, the pole prevented a victory for SA against Mexico. Mphela's strike managed to hit the woodwork saving the Mexican smile. 

After Green's blunder, the pole helped England salvage a draw against USA. The close kick took a deflection from Green's hand and hit the pole as USA drew 1-1. 

Ghana's joys would have been multiplied by 2 if Gyan's late strike hadn't hit the pole.

 

Veron theory

Juan Sebastian Veron has been selected by Maradona over Cambiaso. the old Veron has an interesting playing skill.

If an Argentina player gives him the ball, the ball will be kicked back to him.

If the opponent gives the ball to Veron (remember he cannot get the ball from the opponent, opponent has to give it to him), the ball will end-up either outside the play area or will be a missed pass.

Argentina plays just 10 men...Veron is just like a tree in the middle.

 

Australia to increase their Defense budget

In a late night announcement, Aussie prime minister has announced a steep hike in his defense spending. This came after he watched the Aussie team going down 4-0 to Germany. Asked for an explanation, the team coach Pim Verbeek said that they lacked the sting in their defense. Not used to massive defeats in any sport, Aussies are in deep mourning.

 

Messi, the Lampard of Argentina ?

Messi started the world-cup with 3 great passes...All 3 should have been in the net. Thanks to the blunt strikers, none were converted to goals. Frustrated with this, Messi started his attack on the goal. 4 to 7 strikes at the goal, all saved. Remember Lampard in the previous world-cup. 17 shots at goal and not a single one converted. Will Messi turn out to be the Lampard of Argentina. I hope not.

 

Serbia gets a new world class volleyball player

Zdravko Kuzmanovic is the new volleyball player of Serbia. The Serbian defender (in football) forgot that he was playing football. Leaped up in air, he played the best volleyball drop shot ever by a Serbian. Unfortunately the referee was spot on and so was Ghana's Gyan. Igor Kolaković, the Serbian volleyball coach has already sent a SOS for Kuzmanovic.