TD 195: The Beautiful Game

[Bamaman]

Just a bump because I am bored.

[ihavejeoprosy]

Whoever volunteered to post the rest of the questions should do so without the others that havent replied.

[tjconn728]

I didn't so much volunteer as much as suggest that people post here. That being said, I could do the scoring, but not until Wednesday at the earliest. However, of the few that haven't posted yet, I know I've seen Paucle and mennoknight (and I think dott) post recently, so hopefully we can still get their responses at the least.

[chalupabatman786]

Bump.

[goforthetie]

I just sent a PM to the missing contestants.

[Paucle]

11-14, like most of my answers, were joke answers.
here they are, found them:

11. either Maradona or Maradona II... go with Maradona

12. Joe Torre
13. Chicago Fire
14. Japan

[mitchparov]

Doubt they'll matter, but:

Spoiler

11. Roberto Baggio


THE SUBSTITUTES

12. Alex Freaking Ferguson

13. Vancouver Whitecaps

14. Iran

[dklee12]

Thanks for the heads-up, gftt!

From my entry PM:

Spoiler

Hopefully I can survive my tendency to not follow the club game quite as closely as the international game. Let's see how it goes.

_1: Barthez? (1998; I know the 3 since, but I'll try to stretch a little further back...)
_2: Borussia Dortmund
_3: Hungary
_4: Clint Dempsey
_5: Cuiaba
_6: Ukraine (2006, rd of 16 vs. SUI)
_7: Nigeria (2000)
_8: Nicaragua (2 or 3 editions ago, I think)
_9: Iran (2006)
10: Zeno?? (No idea about the sketch, but seems like a semi-safe enough guess.)
11: Salenko (1994)

12: Wenger
13: Miami?
14: Iraq (2007)

I'm slightly embarrassed that I actually mixed up the years for the Olympic champs in question 7. (My answer won in 1996; their next-door neighbors won in 2000.) Glad it didn't affect the correctness of the answer.

And of course, it looks like I was ultimately sunk by my ignorance not of club soccer but of Monty Python (the only question not involving any actual soccer knowledge). Oh, well.

Presumptive congrats to chalupabatman on a well-deserved win!

[dklee12]

(Also, the karmic appropriateness that the reveal would go uncompleted in a TD I'm doing well in is not lost on me.)

[mennoknight]

Sorry, but my sent message folder has been purged since this. I keep it clean dogs.

[Bamaman]

Sorry, but my sent message folder has been purged since this. I keep it clean dogs.

Just go ahead and answer them anyway the best you can.

[mennoknight]

Pretty sure I went:
11: Klose? That German guy.
12. I either dropped this or said Billy Jones or some made up name.
13. Vancouver Whitecaps
14. south korea

[goforthetie]

dott PM'd back her responses:

11) Maradonna
12) Benedict Cumberbatch
13) Columbus Crew
14) Japan

[tjconn728]

That leaves only paulsaysthought, who hasn't visited since June 24. He is probably a puppet account of the original host for this game, so it is probably best to continue without him. I should be able to get to scoring next week some time if no one else wants to do it before then.

[tjconn728]

Let's finish this thing up!

11. Tbe Golden Boot or Golden Shoe Award has been awarded since 1930 to the top goalscorer in the tournament. In older tournaments, all players who were tied with the most goals would share in the award; now, if there's a tie, there are tiebreakers to determine the winner.

Q: Name any player who's won the Golden Boot at the World Cup. (25 answers)[/spoiler]

CORRECT ANSWERS

Ronaldo - 2002 (6 points)
chalupabatman786
CheezeWhiz
CoachP
MarkBarrett
DadofTwins
xxaaaxx

Miroslav Klose - 2006 (2 points)
goforthetie
mennoknight

Oleg Salenko - 1994 (1 point) Interesting factoid: Salenko was the only Golden Boot winner whose team did not advance out of the group stage AND the six goals he scored in the World Cup are the only goals of his international career. Of the six goals, five were scored against Cameroon, which is the World Cup single game record.
dklee12

Paolo Rossi - 1982 (1 point)
Turd Ferguson

Muller - 1970 (Gerd) and 2010 (Thomas)
econgator (Not sure which Muller you meant, but seeing as it was a singleton, it doesn't matter.)

INCORRECT ANSWERS (11 POINTS)
jjwaymee - Zinedine Zidane (won Golden Ball as best player in 2006, and finished in an eight-way tie for second-highest goalscorer with 3 goals)
amorris525 - Diego Maradona (three-way tie for second in 1986)
ihavejeoprosy - Pele (two-way tie for second in 1958)
zakharov - Romario (won Golden Ball in 1994 and finished in four-way tie for third-most goals with current U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann)
CrunchyTaco - Ronaldinho (named to 2002 All-Star team, but never in top 3 goalscorers)
geolawyerman - Lionel Messi (won Golden Ball in 2014, not that we knew that when this TD originally ran)
tjconn728 - David Villa (four-way tie for most goals in 2010, but lost Golden Ball to Thomas Muller on tiebreaker)
dnbguy - Diego Maradona
mitchparov - Roberto Baggio (tied for third-most goals in 1994)
Leander - Diego Maradona
dott888 - Diego Maradona
jepkid97 - Pele
Bamaman - Pele
gamawire - Pele
JoshuaRQI - Zinedine Zidane
Paucle - Diego Maradona

CORRECT ANSWERS NOT USED
Guillermo Stabile - 1930
Oldrich Nejedly - 1934
Leonidas - 1938
Ademir - 1950
Sando Kocsis - 1954
Just Fontaine - 1958
Florian Albert - 1962
Valentin Ivanov - 1962
Garrincha - 1962
Vava - 1962
Drazen Jerkovic - 1962
Leonel Sanchez - 1962
Eusebio - 1966
Grzegorz Lato - 1974
Mario Kempes - 1978
Gary Lineker - 1986
Salvatore Schillaci - 1990
Hristo Stoichkov - 1994
Davor Suker - 1998

[tjconn728]

Standings after the Starting XI

1. dklee12 26
2. chalupabatman786 28
3. goforthetie 43
4. Turd Ferguson 50
5. CheezeWhiz 51
6. CoachP 52
7. jjwaymee 53
8. MarkBarrett 55
9. amorris525 56
10. DadofTwins 56
11. ihavejeoprosy 57
12. zakharov 57
13. mennoknight 57
14. CrunchyTaco 59
15. xxaaaxx 60
16. geolawyerman 62
17. tjconn728 64
18. dnbguy 64
19. mitchparov 69
20. Leander 70
21. dott888 72
22. econgator 74
23. jepkid97 75
24. Bamaman 79
25. gamawire 83
26. JoshuaRQI 88
27. Paucle 89

Note: The only player we don't have answers for is Paulsaysthought. I've left scoring for the first 10 questions with him as is, but just won't include him for the last few. It shouldn't make too much of a difference.

[tjconn728]

The Substitutes

If you recall all the way back to June when the TD was first set up, the last three questions were substitutes, in that a low score on any of these questions would replace a higher scoring correct answer on the first 11. Rather than go through all the answers, I'll just list the correct ones and any corresponding replacements.

Spoiler

12. While the Premier League is the top flight of England, no English-born manager has ever won the league - the last English manager to win at the top level in England was Howard Wilkinson, who hoisted the old First Division title at Leeds United in 1991/92, the year before the Premiership's founding.

Q: Name any manager who has won the Premiership since its founding in the 1992/93 season. (7 answers)

CORRECT ANSWERS

Sir Alex Ferguson (9 points)

Nine points isn't low enough to warrant a replacement for anyone, but give yourself a pat on the back for coming up with a correct answer.
xxaaaxx
jjwaymee
dnbguy
Leander
DadofTwins
tjconn728
jepkid97
CoachP
mitchparov

Arsene Wenger (2 points)
amorris525 (-3)
dklee12 (-2)

Jose Mourinho (1 point)
zakharov (-7)

Roberto Mancini (1 point)
chalupabatman786 (-5)

CORRECT ANSWERS NOT GIVEN
Carlo Ancelotti
Manuel Pellegrini

[tjconn728]

13. North America has its own club championship as well, known as the CONCACAF Champions League. Under normal circumstances, five MLS teams qualify for each tournament: four from the United States, one from Canada. With the parity that MLS has seen in recent years, fifteen different squads from MLS have participated in at least one CONCACAF Champions League game.

Q: Name any MLS team who, as of the conclusion of the 2013/14 CONCACAF Champions League, has yet to play in a CCL match since the tournament's current format started in 2008/09. (4 answers)

CORRECT ANSWERS

Philadelphia Union (3 points)
tjconn728 (-4)
amorris525 (-2)
chalupabatman786 (-1)

Vancouver Whitecaps (2 points)
mennoknight (-3)
mitchparov (-4)

San Jose Earthquakes (1 point)
MarkBarrett (-7)

Portland Timbers (1 point)
jjwaymee (-7)

[tjconn728]

14. The 2015 Asian Cup has been scheduled to take place in Australia this upcoming January. It's the 16th edition of this continental tournament, the first taking place in 1956. Within the last two weeks, Palestine qualified to play in this tournament, making their tournament debut.

Q: Name any nation that's won the men's Asian Cup. (7 answers)[/spoiler]

CORRECT ANSWERS

Japan - 10 points
Once again, 10 points is not low enough to warrant a replacement.
dott888
JoshuaRQI
Paucle
goforthetie
dnbguy
Leander
DadofTwins
zakharov
tjconn728
MarkBarrett

South Korea - 6 points
CrunchyTaco (no correct answers more than 6 points)
gamawire (no correct answers more than 6 points)
CheezeWhiz (-2)
jepkid97 (-2)
CoachP (-2)
mennoknight (no correct answers more than 6 points)

Saudi Arabia (2 points)
amorris525 (-3)
chalupabatman786 (-2)

Iran (1 point)
dklee12 (-2)

Iraq (1 point)
mitchparov (-3)

CORRECT ANSWERS NOT USED
Israel
Kuwait

[tjconn728]

Sorry for the lack of suspense or witty prizes, I just want to finish this up, but thanks for your patience! Congrats to everyone for sticking with this and sending in your answers. I did not really think that it would work when I suggested it. And an extra big congratulations to chalupabatman and dklee, who have proven that their soccer knowledge far exceeds that of anyone else here. We all have four years to brush up before the next World Cup!

FINAL STANDINGS

1. chalupabatman786 20
2. dklee12 22
3. goforthetie 43
4. jjwaymee 46
5. MarkBarrett 48
6. amorris525 48
7. CheezeWhiz 49
8. Turd Ferguson 50
9. zakharov 50
10. CoachP 50
11. mennoknight 54
12. DadofTwins 56
13. ihavejeoprosy 57
14. CrunchyTaco 59
15. tjconn728 60
16. xxaaaxx 60
17. geolawyerman 62
18. mitchparov 62
19. dnbguy 64
20. Leander 70
21. dott888 72
22. jepkid97 73
23. econgator 74
24. Bamaman 79
25. gamawire 83
26. JoshuaRQI 88
27. Paucle 89