Do you think you know your football? If so, test your knowledge with our world football quiz. How many of the 20 questions can you get right? The correct answers you will find tomorrow.
1. Where do Schalke 04 play their home games?
A: Dusseldorf
B: Krefeld
C: Gelsenkirchen
2. Who was Italy’s coach at the 1998 World Cup in France?
A: Giovanni Trapattoni
B: DinoZoff
C: Cesare Maldini
3. Which former French international hails from New Caledonia?
A: Bernard Lama
B: BasileBoli
C: Christian Karembeu
4. Where are the clubs, Black Leopards and Silver Stars, based?
A: Chicago
B: Johannesburg
C: Auckland
5. How have most of the matches at the FIFA World Cup™ ended to date?
A: 1-0 B: 1-1 C: 2-1
6. What was the nickname of legendary Mexican striker Hugo Sanchez?
A: Hugol B: La Tortilla C: Texmex
7. To which confederation does the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association belong?
A: OFC
B: CONCACAF
C: AFC
8. Sheffield FC is the oldest football club in the world. Which anniversary did the English club celebrate last year?
A: 125th B: 150th C: 175th
9. Which club did Thierry Henry first play for as a professional?
A: Marseille B: Monaco C: Nice
10. How many times did the USA’s Mia Hamm win the FIFA Women’s World Player award?
A: Once B: Twice C: Three times
11. Which national team does leading Central American striker Carlos Ruiz, nicknamed El Pescadito (little fish), represent?
A: Guatemala B: Honduras C: Panama
12. Which of these countries has taken part in a FIFA World Cup™ final competition?
A: Venezuela B: Burkina Faso C: Cuba
13. Which of these South American associations joined FIFA first (in 1912)?
A: Argentina B: Brazil C: Chile
14. What is the nickname of Cesar Luis Menotti, who coached the Argentine world champions in 1978?
A: El Flaco (Skinny)
B: El Grande (the Giant)
C: El Tom (the Bull)
15. Where in South Africa was the preliminary draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ held?
A: Port Elizabeth B: Durban C: Sun City
16. Where is India’s most successful club, Mohun Bagan, based?
A: Kolkata B: Mumbai C: New Delhi
17. Who scored the goal for the Netherlands in their 2-1 defeat to FR Germany in the 1974 World Cup final?
A: Johnny Rep
B: Rene van de Kerkhof
C: Johan Neeskens
18. How tall is Liverpool and England striker Peter Crouch, renowned for his aerial domination?
A: 1.95m B: 2.01m C: 2.05m
19. Which national team does Seville striker Frederic Kanoute represent?
A: Mali B: Togo C: Gambia
20. Which country is not a member of FIFA?
A: Timor-Leste
B: St. Vincent and the Grenadines
C: Greenland

1. What does football mean to you?
Absolutely everything — I live and breathe football all the time.
2. Which football club did you support as a child?
Racing FC Bafoussam, my local team in Cameroon.
3. Did you ever have an idol?
In football terms, when I was young I admired Diego Maradona and hoped that one day I would have skills like him but my all-time idol, although I didn’t see him play like I did Maradona, has to be Pele – the greatest of them all. As far as English players are concerned I admired Alan Shearer and Paul Ince because of their winning spirit.
4. What is your fondest footballing memory?
I have lots, not just one, because winning any trophy is bound to leave happy memories.
5. What has been your biggest disappointment in football?
Any time we get knocked out of a cup competition whether it be on the domestic front with my club or with my national team.
6. If you had not become a professional footballer, what would you have become?
A detective. I like making investigations and getting to the bottom of a mystery. If something was stolen at our training ground I’d like to be the one who solved the case by questioning people and working out how and where it could have been taken.
7. What is your favourite type of music?
African music.
8. And your favourite book?
I’m sorry but I’m not a great reader.
9. Your favourite film?
That’s more like it …I like lots of detective films..
10. Your favourite city?
I love all the cities in Cameroon.
11. What is your favourite food?
Rice.
12. What is your favourite hobby?
I love tennis and play the game at quite a high level. My idol in tennis was the great Pete Sampras. What a tennis player, what a serve – 120mph – almost like mine!
13. What do you spend most of your money on?
I invest it carefully.
14. What was your first job?
I have always been a footballer. At school, I would just play football like everyone else and I was just happy to let it develop as it would but it was when I was selected for the Cameroon national youth side that I decided my career would be as a footballer.
15. Who has been the most influential figure in world history?
That’s a tricky one but maybe it is the former South African leader, Nelson Mandela
16. What are you afraid of?
Injections!
17. What was the most embarrassing moment in your life?
Thankfully, I must say there hasn’t really been one.
18. How do you see the future of the world?
Again, that’s an interesting question but let’s hope it’s a very happy one.
19. Where would you like to go on holiday?
Anywhere the sun shines!
20. Who would you most like to meet?
I’m not the type of person who says he would like to meet x, y or z because I like meeting a wide range of people. I can adapt easily. I make friends easily and in most places I’ve been I’ve liked people and people have liked me. I haven’t found it difficult to adapt anywhere because of the type of person I am.

MARCO ANTONIO ETCHEVERRY
Born: 26 September 1970 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia)
Nationality: Bolivian
Position: attacking midfielder
Clubs: 1987-1989: Destroyers (Bolivia). 1989-1992: Bolivar (Bolivia). 1992: Albacete (Spain). 1993-1995: Colo Colo (Chile). 1995: America de Cali (Colombia). 1996-2003: DC United (USA). 2004: Bolivar (Bolivia). During the MLS off-season, he also played for Barcelona SC in 1997 and Emelec in 1998 (both Ecuador).
Honours: League championship winner in Bolivia (1991, 1992), Chile (1993), the USA (1996,1997,1999) and Ecuador (1997). Won the South American Under-16 Championship in 1986 and took part in six Copas America (1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997 (runner-up) and 1999). 72 caps for Bolivia, 13 goals.
Miscellaneous: He was trained at the Tahuichi football academy, one of the most prestigious in South America. On 12 April 2006 the Bolivian parliament awarded him the “Medal of Merit”. In 2005 he was named one of the best players in the history of Major League Soccer (MLS) and in October 2007, the members of DC United’s championship-winning side of 1997 played a tribute match in honour of their captain against Hollywood United, a team of ex-footballers and TV and film stars, at the RFK Stadium in Washington.