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By Chris Wright
Athletic Bilbao tonked third-tier side Albacete (bit of trivia: Andres Iniesta is the club's
majority shareholder) 4-0 in the Copa del Rey at the San Mames last night, with the third goal of
the night being scored by forward Gaizka Toquero a man who, to quote Wikipedia, is 'blessed with
few technical skills but is a tremendous hard-worker'.
Today sees the release of Melbourne Victory's first ever iPhone app called The Melbourne Victory
Fan Challenge. The app includes three main features: Melbourne Victory Shoot Out game Melbourne
Victory Trivia QR scanner The QR scanner allows you to scan particular encrypted bar codes located
around the stadium on match days, on posters and at
Which two Singaporean international keepers started their careers in the Geylang United youth
team?Which two players have spent the longest with one team in Singapore and what was that
team?Which SLeague team had never won at Bedok Stadium since the competition began?
This kind of trivia is commonplace in England where fans are quick to absorb all sorts of nonsense
about the game and their favourite team.
Outside of the fact that everyone hates him, Manuel Neuer's life is pretty good. The best young
keeper in the land, Germany's keeper, Bayern's form, getting to take naps while Mario Gomez scores
like it's going out of style down the other end, etc. With such talent in front of him on both
fronts, it's possible he spends his time back in net brushing up on his trivia.
Tomorrow sees the Singapore Cup Final taking place at the Jalan Besar Stadium. Home United will
look to complete the first leg of a domestic double when they take on League Cup winners Albirex
Niigata.
Last year's affair saw Bangkok Glass defeat Tampines Rovers 1-0 (programme cover left) while I got
shitfaced in an infamous bar district with persons unknown and returned home with just a toy bus
for my son.
When discussing the best coach in the history of Major League Soccer the conversation certainly
includes Bruce Arena and Sigi Schmid. Today, Arena earned his 3rd Coach of Year award with Schmid
being a solid second. All three voting categories had Arena as first, Schmid as second and Peter
Vermes as third for the 2011 award.
By Chris Wright
With most of the players involved in the derby-day pasting at the weekend given the night off,
Manchester United wafted through to the quarter finals of the Carling Cup with a 3-0 victory over
League Two side Aldershot at the Recreation Ground last night with Dimitar Berbatov, Michael Owen
and Park Ji-Sung doing the honours for United.
Come talk to me about Oliver Kahn or Gianluigi Buffon when they have their own trivia tribute corn
maze like Kasey Keller does.- Greg Seltzer
The Dark Clouds Supporters invite you to the Fall Summit and Silent Auction on Wednesday, October
5th, at 8:00 p.m. The Local in downtown Minneapolis at 10th and Nicollet, home of Saturday morning
EPL games and Stars trivia, will be the location for the event. The party will be held in The
Hollow, a private room [.
By Chris Wright
Playboy Bunny Prue sprawls face-down in the mud during a charity football match between Hef's
girls and a team of 'apes' (i.e, the cast from the film 'Battle for the Planet of the Apes') in aid
of the World Wildlife Fund at Hurlingham Park in London...
"Get your stinking paws off me you damn, dirty ape!
La selección de Venezuela tuvo un muy buen torneo en la Copa America de Argentina que acaba de
terminar , jugo de manera que sorprendió a muchos y estuvo entre los cuatro primeros lugares de la
clasificacion, por eso les regalaremos a uno de nuestros lectores asiduos una playera de la
selección venezolana talla S.
In an effort to help promote the upcoming CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage games, the
Seattle Sounders have given us three pairs of tickets to give away to our readers. Rather than do
it via something relatively boring like trivia, they asked that we make it a little more
interactive. So here's what we're going to do:
In the comments, give us your favorite CCL moment, preferably Sounders related.
When the league announced before the season that Opta was being contracted to gather in-depth
stats in league play, stat nerds like myself went giddy at the opportunity for more in-depth
analysis of the events that make up a soccer match. But for the first half of the season, the only
output we could see was the occasional tweet from Opta which amounted more to trivia than to
statistics.
Now that the USA's roster is out, time to brush on your Gold Cup knowledge. ussoccer.com has just
the tickets with this handy infographic to get you and your fellow MNT fans up to speed on the
schedule, the format, some history and trivia and a few other items tossed in. You'll even get a
graphic look at the team's kits for the tournament!
The famous World Soccer magazine came with 'New Look' starting April issue. The new look was not so
much in the quality of the paper of the design of the cover, but in the content and material
itself.
I found it very interesting to take a little journey into the new look as it reflects a new world
of soccer.
The famous World Soccer magazine came with 'New Look' starting April issue. The new look was not so
much in the quality of the paper of the design of the cover, but in the content and material
itself.
I found it very interesting to take a little journey into the new look as it reflects a new world
of soccer.
We don't need no stinkin' ceremony.#5 - One thing that may or may not make you go "Hmm."I wondered
when was the last time a USMNT captain started on the bench and then ended up working much of the
game with another player still wearing his armband. Sadly, I imagine this answer is too hard to
find. But next time it happens, we will all be at the trivia-ready.
Just some trivia for Spanish Football fans & followers around the World. Spanish National Football
Team Captain & goalkeeper, apart from Real Madrid player, IKER CASILLAS became last night the
highest "capped" player is the history ( in all categories) of the Spanish National Team. Spanish
goalkeeper IKER CASLLAS Iker Casillas overtakes another goalkeeper & Spanish legend ANDONI
ZUBIZARRETA
Bit of trivia for global Barça fans & Football fans alike. The FC BARCELONA 3 - 0 victory over
Atletico de Madrid in Round 22 of the Spanish League yesterday gave this particular Barça side
another SPANISH FOOTBALL record. FC Barcelona 2010 - 2011 Barça broke the record previously held
by Real Madrid of 15 consecutive victories in the Spanish League.
Los Provocadores te invitan a que hagas esta trivia sobre la Selección de El Salvador. Lleva
apenas unos minutos y puede ser reveladora. ¿Cuánto sabes de la Selecta?
We kicked off the 2011 version of Trivia Time with a question on twitter this morning - yes, yes,
we know you are following twitter.com/ussoccer and knew this already - but wanted to fill you in on
the answer.
Given this is the first January camp of the 2014 World Cup cycle and there are a lot of fresh
faces, we decided to go back to 2007 and ask this question: How many players on the 2007 January
camp roster went on to represent the U.