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Sports Quiz
Soccer
Soccer’s World Cup was held in June and July, 2007, in Canada. Like soccer, Jews are a world-wide phenomenon! But your “goal” now is to find out who much you know about Jewish soccer stars like Benny Feilhaber, who just joined the US National Team this year! Ready to kick it?
1. The most famous soccer player in the world today, David Beckham, recently discovered that he has a Jewish:
2. Pro player Ethan Zohn used the whole million dollars he won on the reality show ____ to "mobilize the global soccer community to combat the AIDS epidemic in Africa."
3. Tal Karp played on the Australian Olympic Team in 2004 and her country’s World Cup Team the year before. When she was 7, she joined her brother’s team even though she was the only:
4. Jonathan Bornstein joined the US National Team in 2006 and plays for Chivas USA out of Los Angeles. In 2005, he led the US to a Silver in the Jewish Olympics held in Israel, called the:
5. Jeff Agoos played for many teams, but it was with (Washington) DC United that he won three MLS Championships in a row, 1996-98. He won his fourth and fifth with this California team:
6. Shep Messing played on the ’72 US Olympic team in Munich and on the NY Cosmos with Pelé. In 1979, Shep was the Major Indoor Soccer League MVP, which stands for Most _____ Player.
7. Sara Whalen was on the 2000 US Olympic Team, which won a Silver Medal, and on another American Team with Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain in 1999, which shocked the world when it beat China for the Women’s...
8. In the 1920s, an all-Jewish soccer team won Austria’s National Championship three years in a row! Their team name was "Hakoach," which is Hebrew for:
9. Hakoach’s coach, Arthur Baar, went on to found soccer as a pro sport in the country of:
10. Also from Austria was Hugo Meisl, a player, referee, reporter, and top official. He felt that sports was a way to unite countries, so he founded The Mitropa Cup, the first international soccer competition, which became the:

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