Football Quiz

How good is your knowledge of the language of soccer? This is languagecaster.com’s weekly football language review quiz with five questions for you to answer. During each week of the season check our twitter feed, read our posts, and learn phrases, cliches and words related to football, to help you answer the quiz. This week is a review of our previous 4 quizzes!

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How good is your knowledge of the language of soccer? This is languagecaster.com’s weekly football language review quiz with five questions for you to answer. During each week of the season check our twitter feed, read our posts, and learn phrases, cliches and words related to football, to help you answer the quiz.

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How good is your knowledge of the language of soccer? This is languagecaster.com’s weekly football language review quiz with five questions for you to answer. During each week of the season check our twitter feed, read our posts, and learn phrases, cliches and words related to football, to help you answer the quiz.

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How good is your football vocabulary? This is languagecaster.com’s weekly football language review quiz with five questions for you to answer. During each week of the season check our twitter feed, read our posts, and learn phrases, cliches and words related to football, to help you answer the quiz.

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How good is your football vocabulary? This is languagecaster.com’s weekly football language review quiz with five questions for you to answer. During each week of the season check our twitter feed, read our posts, and learn phrases, cliches and words related to football, to help you answer the quiz.

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How much do you think you know about the big game between Real Madrid and Barcelona? Take our El Clásico Quiz to find out. continue

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Every day during the World Cup, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliché connected to this summer’s tournament. Click on the link below to hear the word or phrase and you can also read the transcript. You can find many more examples by going to our football phrase page here football clichés here and our huge football glossary here.

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Today’s World cup phrase is to implode. Maybe most students of English have heard of explode, like a bomb, an explosion. Implode is a word used to describe a team, or team performance that is so bad it damages the chances of the team, it causes them to destroy their own chances – they collapse inwards. No prizes for guessing which team has imploded at this World Cup, France. Anelka sent home for swearing at the manager, captain Evra fighting with the coaching staff, players refusing to train and terrible, disjointed performances on the pitch. France imploded. They destroyed their chances and are now heading home early. To implode.

How much do you know about the history of the World Cup? Who won the tournament in 1938? Where was the final played in 1974? Who was the top scorer in 1966? Download the pdf file below, answer the questions and fill in the crossword. There is also an online version and of course there are answers provided.

World Cup Crossword.pdf | Answers | Online Version

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2. Losing finalists in 1974 and 1978
6. The host nation of the first World Cup
8. One of the losing semi-finalists in the 2002 World Cup
13. The only person to have scored a hat trick in a World Cup final. Geoff ____________
14. Brazil beat which host nation 5-2 in 1958 to win the World Cup?
16. Cameroon and which other African nation have reached the quarter-final of the World Cup – the furthest an African team has made?
17. Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya. Which of these four North African nations has never appeared at a finals?
18. Sent off in the 2006 World Cup final
19. First person to win the World Cup as a player
and a manager?
20. Juste Fontaine scored the most goals in one World Cup than anyone else. Which country is he from? continue

We are in the run-in to many of the European league’s title races. If we look at the Premier League, it is Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham in the top four, while in La Liga Real Madrid are first, followed by Barcelona, Valencia and Mallorca.

Most league tables are based on how many points a team has. How about these top fours? How are they decided?

Imaginary Tables

	Premier League	La Liga
1	M United	Barcelona
2	Arsenal	R Madrid
3	Sunderland	Espanyol
4	Man City	A Madrid

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In this week’s quiz we ask how much you know about La Liga in Spain? The answers will appear tomorrow.

1. Which team has won most La Liga titles?
a. Barcelona
b. Real Madrid
c. Valencia
d. Athletic Bilbao

2. Which was the last team apart from Barcelona or Real Madrid to win La Liga?
a. Deportivo La Coruña
b. Atlético de Madrid
c. Valencia
d. Villareal
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