General Awareness

Football Tournaments and Awards

1,909 Questions

Football tournaments and awards cover historical goals, captains, coaches, and records from events like the FIFA World Cup and UEFA Champions League. These sports facts are standard in SSC, banking, and railways exams. Test your knowledge of famous players and tournament outcomes.

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Football Tournaments and Awards Questions

Multiple choice

The 2007 FIFA Woman player of the year is

  1. Birgit Prinz

  2. Christiane

  3. Marta

  4. Sania Mirza

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Marta Vieira da Silva, commonly known as Marta, was awarded the FIFA World Player of the Year in 2007.

Multiple choice

The famous footballer Pele was born on 21st October 1940 in

  1. Brazil

  2. Germany

  3. Spain

  4. Italy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Pele, born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, was born in Brazil on October 23, 1940 (not October 21). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time and led Brazil to three World Cup victories.

Multiple choice

Which of the player is related to Football?

  1. Lala Amarnath

  2. Gopi Chand

  3. Marat Safin

  4. Michael Owen
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Michael Owen is a well-known former English professional footballer. The other names are associated with cricket, badminton, and tennis.

Multiple choice

Which of the following options best corrects/completes statement IV?

Directions: This passage contains errors and an omission. Choose the correct option to complete the passage.
Statement I: Lionel Messi set the record for most goals in a calendar year by scoring his 86 goal of 2012.
Statement II: He set the record with scoring the winning goal against Real Betis.
Statement III: Messi, a footballer, plays as the captain of Argentinas national team.
Statement IV: The record breaking performance made Messi claim __________               

  1. his fourth FIFA world player of the year award.

  2. his four FIFA World Player Of The Year awards.

  3. his fourth FIFA World Player of the year award.

  4. his fourth FIFA World Player of the Year award.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(4) takes care of all the punctuations correctly.

Multiple choice

Which of the following options best corrects/completes statement III?

Directions: This passage contains errors and an omission. Choose the correct option to complete the passage.
Statement I: Lionel Messi set the record for most goals in a calendar year by scoring his 86 goal of 2012.
Statement II: He set the record with scoring the winning goal against Real Betis.
Statement III: Messi, a footballer, plays as the captain of Argentinas national team.
Statement IV: The record breaking performance made Messi claim __________               

  1. Capital letter required for ‘captain’.

  2. Comma not required after ‘Messi’.

  3. Apostrophe required for ‘Argentinas’.

  4. Comma not required after 'footballer’.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence is telling about belongingness, the national team of hockey.

Multiple choice

Which of the following options is the best substitute for the underlined words in statement I?

Directions: This passage contains errors and an omission. Choose the correct option to complete the passage.
Statement I: Lionel Messi set the record for most goals in a calendar year by scoring his 86 goal of 2012.
Statement II: He set the record with scoring the winning goal against Real Betis.
Statement III: Messi, a footballer, plays as the captain of Argentinas national team.
Statement IV: The record breaking performance made Messi claim __________               

  1. 86 goals

  2. 86nd goal

  3. 86th goal

  4. 86th goals
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Here a specific goal is being talked about and that how numbers are written in such a case.

Multiple choice

Which of the following options is the best substitute for the underlined words in statement II?

Directions: This passage contains errors and an omission. Choose the correct option to complete the passage.
Statement I: Lionel Messi set the record for most goals in a calendar year by scoring his 86 goal of 2012.
Statement II: He set the record with scoring the winning goal against Real Betis.
Statement III: Messi, a footballer, plays as the captain of Argentinas national team.
Statement IV: The record breaking performance made Messi claim __________               

  1. while

  2. since

  3. when

  4. from
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Scoring tells us about the continuity of the sentence. Therefore, while is the only word that complements scoring in this case.

Multiple choice

Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given and a question is asked, based on the information provided in the passage/statement. Critically examine the five alternative answer options marked (1) to (5) and choose the best answer. “Ronaldo scored at least ten goals in the last World Cup Soccer Tournament”. This inference can be logically deduced from which of the following statements?

  1. The average score in terms of goals of all those included in Ronaldo's team was at least above 10.

  2. Had someone not scored ten goals, he would have been refused a berth on the team, Ronaldo was offered a berth on the team for the next tournament.

  3. Only those having scored at least ten goals can see the opening ceremony. Ronaldo can watch the parade ceremony.

  4. In green-room pre-match briefings, no one scoring less than ten goals in the last tournament is ever seated on the first few rows of sofas. Ronaldo is seated in the fourth row.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The number of goals scored by the entire team does not give us any clue regarding what Ronaldo did. Now we cannot average out, and even if we do, we would be applying our general knowledge of sports, which is ruled our in this question on logic. So option (1) is ruled out. In option (3), note the word opening and parade carefully, which do not amount to the same thing. One could be easily taken in by the looks of the answer, but a careful study would reveal that we are not entirely clear about what the parade ceremony means, the inaugural or the valedictory. So is true of option (4), which tries to confuse you by mentioning the first few sofas and then talking about the fourth row, which may or may not be a part of the first few sofas. Option (5) is misleading as it talks of more than ten goals while the paragraph mentions at least ten goals. Option (2) is the safest, going by its contents.