Daily football quiz
Football quiz #26: the answers
6 November 2026. Five questions, easy to hard.
Question 1
What surface is beach soccer played on?
- ✅ Sand
- ▫️ Wooden court
- ▫️ Grass
- ▫️ Artificial turf
Barefoot play on sand gives a fast, acrobatic game full of overhead kicks.
Question 2
What is a 'sweeper', or libero?
- ✅ A defender who plays behind the back line
- ▫️ A winger who tracks back
- ▫️ A keeper who takes free kicks
- ▫️ A striker who presses defenders
The sweeper mops up loose balls behind the defence; Franz Beckenbauer made the role famous.
Question 3
What role does a "regista" play?
- ▫️ A sweeper behind the defence
- ✅ A deep-lying playmaker
- ▫️ A target-man striker
- ▫️ A man-marking full-back
The Italian word means 'director': a holding midfielder who dictates play from deep.
Question 4
Which formation did Brazil use to win the 1958 World Cup?
- ✅ 4-2-4
- ▫️ WM (3-2-2-3)
- ▫️ 3-5-2
- ▫️ 4-4-2
The 4-2-4 used two central midfielders behind four forwards, including Pelé.
Question 5
What was the 2-3-5 formation, common in the late 1800s, usually called?
- ▫️ The diamond
- ▫️ The Christmas tree
- ▫️ The bolt
- ✅ The pyramid
Two backs, three half-backs and five forwards form a pyramid shape when drawn from the goal outwards.
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