How Much do You Know?
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Can you answer some
simple questions
about your club, the
game you play, and
the sport as played at
the highest level?
Question 1
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Suburban
What doesWestern
WSSL
stand for (it’sSoccer
the
League
league you all play in,
and some ofAnn
you Arbor Youth
might haveSoccer
won a Association
League Championship
in it)? And what does
AAYSA stand for?
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This is The Arsenal.
Question
Founded
in 18862by
workers at the Woolwich
Ann Arbor Arsenal
Arsenal
(arms
factory),
may be famous in the
the
club
soon moved to
Metro
Detroit
area,
but what
team is
this,
North
London.
After
and where do they
play?many years at Highbury
the club moved to the
Emirates Stadium this
year
Question
3
This is Steve Burns, who
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has coached the UM team
The University of
since
it
achieved
Varsity
Michigan has had a
status
in for
1999. He coached
men’s varsity
team
a number of
years.
for
AAYSA from 1994 to
Its coach1999
once and played for the UM
worked for Ann Arbor
Arsenal. club
Who when
is he? he was a student
(1984-88)
Question 4
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This, of course, is the World
Every boy Cup.
playingThe
the official name of
game – everywhere in
the cup itself is the Jules
the world – dreams of
Rimet
Trophy.
holding this. What
is
it, and what is its
official name?
Question 5
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This is Fabio Cannavaro,
a defender and captain
of Italy’s World-Cup
One of the greatest
winning
honors in the game
is squad in
to be chosen Germany this year.
After the World Cup he
European Footballer
was transferred
from a
of the Year. Who
is
famous Italian club to
this year’s winner,
thewhat
most famous club of
what club and
– Real Madrid.
country does heall
play
for?
Question 6
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The four permanent members
of the rule-making committee
aregame
the Football
Associations
The rules of the
are
made by the International
of England, Scotland, Wales,
Board of the sport’s
and Northern Ireland. They
governing body, FIFA.
enjoy special status because
Four members at large sit
the role of the British Isles
on it, and fourofpermanent
in the
the formation and
members. Who are
regulation
permanent members,
and of the game, and
why do they have
theirspecial
presence on the Board
status?
has helped to ensure stability
and continuity in the way the
game is played.
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This is Ferenc Puskàs (1927-2006), forward
Question
7 and later a
for Honvéd, captain
of Hungary
star for Real Madrid. In the early 50s he lead
the great
Two
weeksHungarian
ago, one team that famously
defeated
England at Wembley 6-3 in 1953
of
the greatest
players
to play the first overseas team
(therebyever
becoming
the
died the
(his Founder Nation at home),
evergame
to defeat
funeral
is tomorrow).
but could
not quite win the World Cup in
Who
is
he,
what
1954 – they lost to West Germany in the
country did he play
final.
After
theclub
1956
for,
with
what
didHungarian uprising he
leftwin
his three
country, and played for the great Real
he
Madrid teams
that dominated the early years
European
Cups?
of the European Cup.
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This is Clint Dempsey of the New England
Revolution. He was the only American to
Question
8
score in Germany this year – in the 2-1
loss to Ghana that eliminated the
Americans
in group play (the other US
The U.S.
disappointed
was anCup,
own goal from Zacardi of
in the goal
last World
Italy).
but many
fansWhile better-known Americans
experience (Beasley,
thoughtwith
thisEuropean
player
stood out Donovan,
for them. Reyna, for example)
Who isdisappointed
he, and whatand looked out of their
club depth,
does heDempsey
play for?played aggressively and
effectively. One newspaper described him
as the opposite of the US “soccer mom”
culture – a white trash Texan with attitude
and a rap song to his name.
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This is Freddy
Adu of DC United,
who
Question
9
made his professional debut at the age
of fourteen. Now seventeen, he has
Thissometimes
young man,
one
struggled
in the MLS, but
of the
most
many
feel that he can still become a
recognizable
players
top player.
In November he had a
in the
US, recently
two-week
trial at Manchester United,
had training
a trial atwith
a very
the United Academy. Sir
famous
in
Alexclub
Ferguson,
United’s legendary
Europe.
Who said
is thethat they would look at
manager,
player,
what
clubwhen he turns
theand
player
again
gaveeighteen.
him a trial?
Question 10
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This is Juventus of Turin. Pictured
on famous
this slide
are–two of their current
This very
club
squad
one of the
most– both legendary players:
forward
Del Piero, and
successful
in theAlessandro
world,
Buffon. The
two-timegoalkeeper
winners of Gianluigi
the
“oldCup,
lady 27
of times
Turin” was stripped of its
European
and 2006
national2005
champions
– istitles and relegated
playing this
this year
year from
in theSerie A to Serie B for
financialofirregularities
(cheating).
second division
its
This season
is the first spent by
national league.
Which
Juventus,
founded
club is this,
and why
was in 1897, outside
the top tier of the Italian game.
it relegated?