Great Players and Important People
Soccer Places
Soccer History
Soccer Vocabulary
Soccer Rules
100
This striker plays for FC Barcelona and is considered to be one of the best.
Who is Lionel Messi?
100
This place was where the game of soccer was developed.
Where is England?
100
It was during this century that school football became a custom.
When was the 19th century?
100
This is the object of the game and happens by moving the ball into the back of the net.
What is a goal?
100
This happens if you slide tackle someone without touching the ball in the D.
What is a penalty shot?
200
This left midfielder plays for Real Madrid and is considered to be one of the best.
Who is Christiano Ronaldo?
200
The early roots of the modern game of soccer developed in these three places.
Where are China, the Americas, and Europe?
200
Because soccer was often violent it was banned so this British monarch enacted laws that could get a football player sent to jail for up to a week.
Who is Queen Elizabeth the I?
200
This maneuver happens by kicking the ball through someone's legs.
What is a nutmeg?
200
This happens when someone passes the ball behind the last defender.
What is offsides?
300
This person was president of the FA (Football Association) from 1890-1923.
Who is Lord Kinnaird?
300
This place hosted the first women's World Cup in 1991.
Where is China?
300
Legend has it that one early game of something like soccer involved kicking around this severed body part of a vanquished Danish prince around the 700s.
What is a severed head?
300
A player earns this by committing a minor offence.
What is a Yellow Card?
300
This happens when the ball goes out of the sidelines.
What is a throw in?
400
This player played for the Corinthians and held the world long jump record. He was an early player and played right when soccer was invented.
Who is C.B. Fry?
400
This place was where the first international soccer game took place in 1872.
Where is Glasgow in Scotland?
400
Some scholars believe that an early pagan version of the game was a symbolic ritual to conquer this in order to bring fertility to their fields.
What is the sun?
400
This happens when you get the ball around someone by faking them out.
What is a deke?
400
This happens when the ball goes out of the goal-line off of the offending team.
What is a goal kick?
500
This soccer player celebrated her winning goal at the 1999 World Cup by taking her jersey off.
Who is Brandi Chastain?
500
There is evidence of military forces kicking around a leather ball filled with fur and into a small opening during the 2nd and 3rd century BCE.
Where is China?
500
The traditional name of the game was Association Football, but "Association" has been shortened to this word.
What is soccer?
500
A player earns this by committing two minor offences or one serious offence.
What is a Red Card?
500
This happens when the defending team kicks the ball out off their own goal-line.
What is a corner kick?