FOOTBALL - Today’s question: QUIZ - Which country - in both cases acting as defending world champions - TWICE lost the opening match of a FIFA World Cup?
Today’s answer: Argentina
Association quiz answer: Gabriel Heinze from Argentina was born in 1978 and played for among others Manchester United, Real Madrid and AS Roma.
CYCLING - On Saturday, the 96th Giro d’Italia starts in Naples. Mark Cavendish has won 36 stages in all three Grand Tours combined and needs one more stage win to equal Rik Van Looy on eighth place on the all-time list. See below the infographic who are ahead of the Briton. Pink stands for Giro stage wins, yellow for tour stage wins and red for Vuelta stage wins.
FOOTBALL - Today’s question: QUIZ - Which club once won a Champions League knockout stage match by 2-1 only to lose the return leg by 7-1?
Today’s answer: AS Roma
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FOOTBALL - Bayern München eliminated FC Barcelona in the Champions League semifinals. According to the infographic below, they should win the trophy this season.
FOOTBALL - Today’s question: QUIZ - The FIFA World Cup in which year saw Brazil finish in third place and Italy finish in fourth place?
Today’s answer: 1978
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FOOTBALL - Today’s question: QUIZ - Which is the only club to suffer elimination in the Last 16 round of the Champions League in six successive seasons?
Today’s answer: Real Madrid
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FOOTBALL - Today’s question: QUIZ - Which club holds the record for winning the Premier League title with most matchdays remaining (five)?
Today’s answer: Manchester United (2000/2001)
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FOOTBALL - We have our first monthly winner of the 2013 Clausura season. In a wonderful effort and an enormously tight and brilliant race with the other contestants, @G_o_s_h_a has won it on a tiebreaker. Uplifting for the contestants, disheartening for the quizmasters, who are under the impression that they have posed a hard challenge. Congratulations to all participants for performing at such an outrageously high level!
FOOTBALL – Two weeks ago, our head of analysis @simongleave looked at the Premier League race for Champions League places and concluded that Arsenal were the favourites despite being in fifth position at that moment. With a fortnight’s worth of fixtures since then, has anything changed.
FOOTBALL - Today’s question: QUIZ - Which country once won the FIFA World Cup after failing to win a single one of their three group phase matches?
Today’s answer: Italy
Association quiz answer: Born in Italy in 1966, Gianfranco Zola’s clubs as player or manager have included Napoli, Parma and West Ham United.
FOOTBALL - Today’s question: QUIZ - Which club won the final of a major European cup competition with foreign players Georges Grün and Tomas Brolin in their ranks?
Today’s answer: Parma
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FOOTBALL - By netting against Borussia Dortmund, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored in six successive Champions League matches. Two players have done that before - Burak Yilmaz and Marouane Chamakh. However, Yilmaz and Ronaldo are the only two platyers who have scored in six straight within the same season. The Infographic below shows more.
FOOTBALL - Today’s question: QUIZ - In which year were Italy famously/notoriously knocked out of the FIFA World Cup through a goal by Pak Doo-Ik?
Today’s answer: 1966
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FOOTBALL - Today’s question: QUIZ - ‘Live Is Life’ by Opus is playing when which club, that goes on to win the cup, is warming up for their 1988/1989 UEFA Cup semifinal?
Today’s answer: Napoli
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FOOTBALL - FC Barcelona play at Bayern München on Tuesday. Lionel Messi has scored in the most cities in the Champions League and can expand his record by scoring in the Allianz-Arena tonight. See below our infographic of Messi’s goals per stadium in the Champions League main tournament. By clicking on the image, you get to the interactive part and select the countries or stadiums he has scored.
Hint: deselect Camp Nou to get a view of all his away goals in the Champions League.
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