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Athletic Bilbao’s Gaizka Toquero Scores Outrageous Backheel Goal vs Albacete (Video)

Who Ate All the Pies 13 January @ 05:24 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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'.

Melbourne Victory release iPhone app

victoryblog 08 December @ 06:06 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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

Geylang United Trivia

Jakarta Casual 29 November @ 07:19 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

Manuel Neuer: Trivia Buff

The Offside 18 November @ 11:12 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

Singapore Cup Final

Jakarta Casual 18 November @ 06:14 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

Bruce Arena Pushes Past Sigi Schmid In MLS Coach Of Year Race

Sounder at Heart - Soccer From the Heart of the Sound 14 November @ 03:21 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

League Cup: Aldershot 0-3 Man Utd – Berba, Micky & Park Do The Business For United (Photos & Highlights)

Who Ate All the Pies 26 October @ 05:53 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

Maize-en-scène

No Short Corners 29 September @ 08:57 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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

2011 Dark Clouds Supporters Fall Summit and Silent Auction

Inside Minnesota Soccer 28 September @ 01:59 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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 [.

Retro Snapshot: Playboy Bunnies vs Planet Of The Apes, 1973

Who Ate All the Pies 13 September @ 06:35 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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!

Gana la jersey del uniforme de Venezuela #vinotinto

Futblog 31 August @ 03:43 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

Ticket Giveaway Contest: Give Us Your Best CCL Moment

Sounder at Heart - Soccer From the Heart of the Sound 10 August @ 05:48 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

Stats: Offensive Pass Percentage in MLS

Sounder at Heart - Soccer From the Heart of the Sound 21 July @ 05:00 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

Gold Cup 101

U.S. MNT Blog 23 May @ 07:28 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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!

World Soccer New Look

One-two goal soccer blog 17 May @ 01:12 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

World Soccer New Look

One-two goal soccer blog 17 May @ 01:12 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

Top 5 USMNT v Paraguay Afterthoughts

No Short Corners 30 March @ 05:38 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM | IKER CASILLAS MOST CAPPED PLAYER IN ALL CATEGORIES

Spanish Football & Sports 10 February @ 04:37 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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

FC BARCELONA BREAKS SPANISH FOOTBALL - LEAGUE RECORD WITH 16 STRAIGHT WINS

Spanish Football & Sports 06 February @ 05:46 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

¿Cuánto sabes de la Selecta?

Los Provocadores 14 January @ 03:12 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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?

Trivia Time: Twitter Tie-In

U.S. MNT Blog 05 January @ 12:14 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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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.