Known around the world as football, soccer is the world’s most watched and played sport. Now Doug Lennox, the striker of Q&A, scores with a pitch full of tidbits that delivers the goods on Pelé, Maradona, Beckham, Zidane, and other superstars, as well as the history, traditions, and rules of the game. Doug has compiled a World Cup of trivia about a truly universal phenomenon that has legions of passionate, and sadly sometimes violent, fans.

• How did soccer originate?,


• Who was the first soccer player to score a hat trick in a World Cup final?


• What was the largest attendance ever for a soccer match?


• What is the "technical area"?


• Where was the world’s first soccer club formed?


• What was the first movie ever made about soccer?


• Where was the first World Cup held?


• What are the Laws of the Game?


• What were the 10 worst losses of life in soccer history?