Serie A Quiz

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1. AC Milan's iconic number 6 shirt was associated with which legendary defender?

   • Maldini
   • Baresi
   • Nesta
   • Costacurta
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   Answer: Baresi

   Franco Baresi spent his entire 20-year career at Milan and captained the club for 15 seasons; they retired his number 6 shirt when he left in 1997 — the first retired number in Italian football.

2. Roberto Mancini won Serie A with which Italian club before becoming a successful manager?

   • Fiorentina
   • Roma
   • Lazio
   • Sampdoria
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   Answer: Sampdoria

   Mancini's strike partnership with Gianluca Vialli, under Vujadin Boskov, fired Sampdoria to their only Serie A title in 1990-91.

3. Napoli won their first ever Serie A title in which year — with Maradona in the team?

   • 1985
   • 1987
   • 1988
   • 1986
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   Answer: 1987

   Napoli sealed their first-ever Scudetto with a 1-1 draw against Fiorentina at the San Paolo in 1986-87, 61 years after the club's founding, with Maradona as captain.

4. Which Serie A striker's constant offside-testing movements led to a legendary saying among Italian defenders?

   • Filippo Inzaghi
   • Totti
   • Vieri
   • Del Piero
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   Answer: Filippo Inzaghi

   Inzaghi's knack for living on the offside line prompted Sir Alex Ferguson's famous quip that he 'must have been born offside'.

5. The Supercoppa Italiana is contested between which two clubs each year?

   • The top two in the league
   • The league champion and cup winner
   • The two cup finalists
   • The two highest league finishers
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   Answer: The league champion and cup winner

   Italy's season-opening Supercoppa Italiana pits the reigning Serie A champion against the Coppa Italia winner; it began in 1988, with Milan beating Sampdoria in the first edition.

6. Who scored the only goal of the 2022 Conference League final for Roma against Feyenoord?

   • Tammy Abraham
   • Nicolò Zaniolo
   • Lorenzo Pellegrini
   • Nicola Zalewski
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   Answer: Nicolò Zaniolo

   Nicolò Zaniolo controlled the ball on his chest and finished in the 32nd minute in Tirana.

7. Inter Milan were founded in 1908 by players who left which club — because they wanted more foreign players?

   • Genoa
   • AC Milan
   • Torino
   • Juventus
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   Answer: AC Milan

   A breakaway faction left AC Milan in 1908 wanting to field foreign players, founding Internazionale — the origin of the Derby della Madonnina between the two Milan clubs.

8. Who scored the winning goal for AC Milan in the 2007 Champions League final against Liverpool?

   • Kaká
   • Seedorf
   • Inzaghi
   • Pirlo
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   Answer: Inzaghi

   Filippo Inzaghi scored both goals as Milan beat Liverpool 2-1 in Athens, avenging the 2005 Istanbul final loss; the first goal deflected in off his arm from Pirlo's free-kick.

9. Which Serie A manager introduced the zone press and total tactical control to Italian football in the late 1980s?

   • Luigi Maifredi
   • Arrigo Sacchi
   • Fabio Capello
   • Giovanni Trapattoni
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   Answer: Arrigo Sacchi

   His pressing, high-line Milan side won back-to-back European Cups in 1989 and 1990.

10. The term 'Derby d'Italia' was coined by journalist Gianni Brera to describe matches between which two clubs?

    • Juventus and Milan
    • Milan and Inter
    • Roma and Lazio
    • Juventus and Inter
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    Answer: Juventus and Inter

    Brera chose these two because, at the time he named it in the 1960s, they were the only sides never to have been relegated from the top flight.

11. Which squad number did Alessandro Del Piero wear throughout his Juventus career?

    • 10
    • 9
    • 11
    • 7
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    Answer: 10

    Del Piero inherited Juventus's No. 10 in 1995 from Roberto Baggio (and previously Platini), going on to become the club's all-time leading scorer with 290 goals.

12. Totti won the 2007 European Golden Shoe after scoring how many Serie A goals in 2006-07?

    • 24
    • 30
    • 26
    • 32
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    Answer: 26

    Totti netted 26 Serie A goals in 2006-07 to top the European scoring charts.

13. Which Italian club won the UEFA Cup in 1999, beating Marseille 3-0 in the Moscow final?

    • Parma
    • Bologna
    • Fiorentina
    • Sampdoria
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    Answer: Parma

    Parma's star-studded side (Buffon, Cannavaro, Thuram, Crespo) won the 1999 UEFA Cup.

14. What squad number did Kaká wear at AC Milan?

    • 23
    • 10
    • 11
    • 22
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    Answer: 22

    Kaká wore #22 at AC Milan. He won the Ballon d'Or in 2007 at Milan before his record €65m transfer to Real Madrid in 2009.

15. How many times did Roberto Pruzzo finish as Serie A's top scorer (capocannoniere)?

    • Three
    • Four
    • One
    • Two
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    Answer: Three

    Pruzzo won the capocannoniere three times, in 1980-81, 1981-82 and 1985-86.

16. Hidetoshi Nakata, the first Asian Serie A superstar, won the Scudetto in 2000-01 with which Italian club?

    • Perugia
    • Lazio
    • Parma
    • Roma
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    Answer: Roma

    Nakata joined Roma from Perugia in January 2000 for €21m.

17. Roma was founded in 1927 through a merger of three clubs, orchestrated by which figure?

    • Italo Foschi
    • Renato Sacerdoti
    • Franco Sensi
    • Dino Viola
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    Answer: Italo Foschi

    Italo Foschi engineered the 1927 merger that created AS Roma.

18. Victor Osimhen won the Serie A Golden Boot in 2022-23 with how many goals?

    • 29
    • 31
    • 26
    • 23
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    Answer: 26

    Osimhen's 26-goal season drove Napoli to their first league title in 33 years.

19. Fiorentina's iconic purple came from a dye run — what were the club's original kit colours?

    • Blue and black
    • Yellow
    • Solid white
    • Red and white
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    Answer: Red and white

    Fiorentina wore red and white before a botched dye wash turned the kit purple, which they kept.

20. The infamous 'Turone goal', ruled out for offside in 1981, was disallowed in a title-deciding away match against which club?

    • Fiorentina
    • Napoli
    • Inter
    • Juventus
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    Answer: Juventus

    Maurizio Turone's header at Juventus in May 1981 was chalked off, and Roma lost the title to Juventus by two points.

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