Turkish 2002 World Cup Squad Trivia Quiz

Answer: 9 (Sukur) and 17 (Mansiz)

Mansiz (11) helped Sukur (9) score the fastest World Cup goal, and Sukur gave two crosses which Mansiz converted. The other jersey numbers are worn by Rustu (1), Zafer (23), Basturk (10), Sas (11), Alpay (5) and Emre B. (21).

Answer: Rustu Recber, Alpay Ozalan and Hasan Sas

The All-Star Dream Team announced before the closing stages of the World Cup included Oliver Kahn (GER) and Rustu Recber in goalkeeping position along with 2 Koreans and 4 Brazilians and other nationalities completing the 16 man squad.

Answer: True

The players met their families after a long time just before the semi-finals against Brazil. However the players and their families were kept in two seperate hotels.

Answer: Bayer Leverkusen (GER)

Bayer Leverkusen boasts these world class players: Brazilian defender Lucio with a gold medal, German players with silver medals and of course Basturk with a bronze medal.

Answer: Midfield

Emre played for Italian club Internazionale and scored his first World Cup goal, against Costa Rica.

Answer: His teammates

The world cup saw a range of strange haircuts, and Umit Davala's was labelled as the worst. However it proved to be lucky for him as he scored the third goal against China and the matchwinner against Japan.

Answer: Hakan Sukur

Sukur is Turkey's most capped player (80) as well as the all time leading goal scorer with 36 international goals. He captained Turkey to 3rd place at the 2002 World Cup as well as scored the fastest World Cup goal in the history of the event. Just under 11 seconds.

Answer: Ilhan Mansiz

Ilhan Mansiz's good looks as well as his footballing talent has made him the Beckham of the Bosphorus. He was the leading goalscorer in the 2001-2002 Turkish League which helped his team Besiktas to third place.

Answer: Umit Davala

Four minutes into extra-time, Umit Davala gave Ilhan Mansiz a cross from Mansiz's right, which the golden boy converted with a first-time touch on the ball.

Answer: True

Turkish players supported Asians, Africans and South-Americans in their campaigns against European teams since the European teams had knocked the Turks out of the World Cup qualifiers for 48 years. Turkey faced Brazil twice in this world cup, once in the league phase and once in the semi-finals. Though they went down both times, they put up a strong fight.

Answer: Bir Oluruz Yolunda

Tarkan rewrote his hit single Tas and named it Bir Oluruz Yolunda in support of the national team. He went to Korea to watch Turkey's opening match. On the Team's return to Turkey, the Turkish players were joined by Tarkan in a concert to celebrate their Third Place triumph.

Answer: Japan

Hakan Sukur was shown the yellow card by Italian referee Pierluigi Collina for tugging at the shirt of Japanese captain Tsuneyasu Miyamoto in the last 5 minutes of the Round of 16 match against Japan. Turkey won 1-0.

Answer: True

Rustu Recber hurt himself in the match against Costa Rica. He was substituted for Omer Catkic in the 34th minute of the match against China.

Answer: Cheese

The Turkish squad brought cheese with them since they were travelling to a far-eastern country, where food is not served in accordance with Islamic laws.

Answer: They both played their club football in Italy.

Both Emre Belozoglu and Umit Davala played with Turkish giants Galatasaray before going to Italy. Emre Belozoglu plays for Internazionale and Umit Davala plays for AC Milan.

Answer: True

The song 'Live for Love United' was sung by 50 footballers to help fight AIDS. The video features famous footballers Zinedine Zidane, Roberto Carlos, Luis Figo and others. Hakan Sukur too appears in the video. He is facing sideways and his jersey has his name and the number 9 on it.

Answer: They have local public works named after them (in Turkey).

After their brilliant performance at the World Cup, Turkish authorities have paid tribute to their stars. Ilhan Mansiz's golden goal which sent Turkey into the semi-finals for the first time earned him a statue in his residential area. Hasan Sas has a boulevard named after him in his hometown Adana. Ergun Penbe has a stadium named after him in Zonguldak. Umit Davala has a bridge named after him. Even coach Senol Gunes has a park named after him in Istanbul.

Answer: 300

The government announced that the players will be honoured with a state medal and will be given 300 gold coins. The Turkish ministry also announced that it was printing 300,000 "third in the world" commemorative silver coins. These will bear the names of the Turkish players on the back and will be sold at 15 million Turkish lira.

Answer: Besiktas

Besiktas came third in the Turkish League in 2001-02 and Ilhan Mansiz was the leading goal scorer of the season.

Answer: Pepsi

Pepsi were sponsors of the national team. Ilhan Mansiz has appeared in several television commercials.