Football Trivia Quiz

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This Football Trivia Quiz has 227 questions: 80 easy, 91 medium and 56 hard. It is a Pro pack, made for fans who know the subject inside out. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.

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10 of the 227 Football deep cuts questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.

1. Which Man Utd winger was mocked for a double spin on the ball against Sheriff in 2022, then became a cult hero on loan at Real Betis?

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   Antony

   He helped Betis reach the 2025 Conference League final, then joined them permanently.

2. Manuel Neuer made which modern role famous, a goalkeeper who rushes out to defend like an outfield player?

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   Sweeper-keeper

   He played it so well at the 2014 World Cup that he finished third in that year's Ballon d'Or.

3. Colombian keeper René Higuita stopped a shot at Wembley in 1995 with what famous kick?

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   Scorpion kick

   It was only a 0-0 friendly, and Higuita said he knew the flag was up for offside.

4. Liverpool players touch a 'This Is Anfield' sign on their way out. Which manager put it up?

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   Bill Shankly

   'It's there to remind our lads who they're playing for, and the opposition who they're playing against,' he said.

5. Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff's Dutch style, where any outfield player could swap roles, is called what?

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   Total Football

   The Netherlands reached the 1974 World Cup final playing it but lost to West Germany.

6. Jamie Vardy was playing for which non-league club when Leicester paid a record £1m for him in 2012?

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   Fleetwood Town

   A few years earlier he was at Stocksbridge Park Steels while working in a factory.

7. Claudio Ranieri woke his Leicester players up in training with which nonsense phrase, while miming a bell?

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   Dilly ding, dilly dong

   He told the story at a 2015 press conference, and Leicester fans turned it into a chant.

8. Southampton signed Ali Dia in 1996 after a phone call from someone pretending to be which superstar?

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   George Weah

   Dia came off the bench against Leeds, was subbed off himself, and never played for them again.

9. After a 0-0 at Stamford Bridge in 2004, José Mourinho accused Tottenham of doing what, giving football a famous phrase?

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   Parking the bus

   'As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal,' he said.

10. Which Wales striker, without a club at the time, scored with a Cruyff turn against Belgium at Euro 2016?

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    Hal Robson-Kanu

    Wales won 3-1 to reach the semi-finals, their best ever run at a major tournament.

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