Turkey's 2002 WC Campaign Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1954

Turkey made their first World Cup appearence in 1954. They were clubbed together with Germany (FDR), Hungary and Korea. They lost to Germany (FDR) 1-4 in their opening game, beat Korea 7-0, and had to play Germany (FDR) again, losing 2-7 to be eliminated in the first round on goal difference. Hungary and Germany(FDR) also played in the Final match which Germany (FDR) won.

Answer: Austria

After losing to Sweden only once in their group qualifiers, Turkey went into a play-off against Austria. They defeated Austria 1-0 in the first play-off and then 5-0 in the second to qualify for their second World Cup after a 48 year gap.

Answer: They had been drawn with Brazil in the same group

The FIFA draw in December 2001 revealed that Group C would consist of Brazil, Turkey, Costa Rica and China. After having qualified for the World Cup finals after a 48 year gap, Turkey were upset that the draw had clubbed them with all time favourites Brazil.

Answer: 11

In 2000, the Turkish club Galatasary lifted the UEFA Cup. Senol Gunes included 11 players who had lifted the UEFA Cup into his World Cup squad of 23.

Answer: 3rd June, Ulsan

The match was held on 3rd June in the South Korean city of Ulsan with an attendance of 33,842.

Answer: Hasan Sas

Hasan Sas scored from a beautiful cross by Basturk to beat goalkeeper Marcos and give Turkey a 1-0 lead.

Answer: Two Turkish players were sent off and an incorrect penalty was given to Brazil

After leading 1-0, Ronaldo drew the match level. A foul by Turkish defender Alpay on Brazilian striker Luizao, which happened outside the penalty box, made the referee expel Alpay and award Brazil a penalty. In the closing stages of the match Brazilian striker Rivaldo fooled the referee to expel Hakan Unsal.

It was clear Rivaldo had simulated, since video evidence showed that the ball kicked by Unsal struck Rivaldo on his knees but he went down clutching his face in agony. Turkish players were upset and thought that they could have at least got a point from the match.

Answer: 56'

Emre Belozoglu gave Turkey a 1-0 lead in the 56th minute after Turkey's numerous shots failed and the match was still tied 0-0 at half-time.

Answer: Emre Belozoglu pushed a Costa Rican official.

Turkish blood ran hot after the Costa Rican leveller. Emre Belozglu pushed a Costa Rican official for not handing him the ball when it was Turkey's throw. This caused some arguments between the Turkish and Costa Rican officials and players leading to more time wasting in the closing minutes of the match. It left Costa Rica with 4 points and Turkey with 1 point.

Answer: 2-0

The first 10 minutes saw two goals by Hasan Sas and Bulent Korkmaz. Turkey needed to beat China 3-0 to advance to the second round and they did thanks to Umit Davala's goal in the 85th minute.

Answer: 16

Turkey got 16 shots and 8 shots on goal but scored 3 goals. They had 53% ball possession.

Answer: +2

Turkey scored the 5 goals and conceded 3 goals. The goal difference was +2 which was more than Costa Rica's -1. Since both teams were on 4 points, Turkey's better goal difference saw them through to round 2.

Answer: 12'

Umit Davala rose unmarked from Emre Belozoglu's corner kick to knock in the header which gave him his second goal.

Answer: 3

Referee Collina cautioned Alpay (21'), Ergun Penbe (44') and captain Hakan Sukur (91').

Answer: 0:0

The match went into extra-time after Turkey failed to convert their excellent chances at goal.

Answer: 4'

Ilhan Mansiz scored only the fourth golden goal in World Cup history to take Turkey to the semi-finals for the first time.

Answer: 49'

Ronaldo score the only goal of the match at 49 minutes after his team found it difficult to put the ball past Turkish keeper Rustu Recber.

Answer: Yildiray Basturk

Yildiray Basturk suffered 8 fouls in this match, and was also the player to be fouled the most number of times.

Answer: 8

Korea managed 20 shots and 10 shots on goal in front of their home crowd, but the second best goalkeeper at the World Cup, Rustu Recber put up a brilliant performance to save 8 shots on goal which gave Turkey the 3rd place. The two South Korean goals came from a free kick in the 9th minute and a deflected goal in the 92nd minute.

Answer: 41'

After Emre Belozoglu was injured, he was substituted by Hakan Unsal as early as the 41st minute. Before this, Emre managed a shot on goal from the free kick, but it fell just wide.

Answer: 119

Turkey committed a total of 119 fouls.

Answer: Vaclav Masek, 1962

Hakan Sukur broke the 40 year record held by Vaclav Masek of Czechoslovakia which stood at 15 seconds. Team-mate Ilhan Mansiz tackled South Korean Captain Hyong-Myung Bo to give his captain the fastest World Cup goal, just short of 11 seconds.

Answer: 12

After putting up an unprecedented performance, and finishing 3rd over all in the World Cup, Turkey managed to climb up 10 spaces in the Fifa World Ranking charts.

Answer: Fatih Aykel

Fatih Aykel played for 634 minutes. Hakan Sukur for 590 minutes, Rustu Recber for 578 minutes and Hasan Sas for 538 minutes.

Answer: True

Turkish coach Senol Gunes beat his European counterparts Guus Hiddink and other coaches to be voted the best European coach at the 2002 World Cup finals.