I have never seen this SA logo before, only guessed it by colour. Is it new? I understand it is only the Bafana Bafana logo and not the federation one but still you would not find a shirt with it till now. Just curious.
also the french logo should have 2 stars please. interesting fact; the four stars above the urugayan logo represent their 2 world cup and 2 olympic titles. here you can learn more on stars on football logos
I know literally nothing about this sport, not even the teams that compete, but I somehow managed to get 16/20 because of the flags and symbols. Missed Netherlands, USA, and Russia, Uruguay.
Yeah, I thought so too. Dragon = China, essentially. Chinese New Year = Dragon. All sorts of things would say the dragon one was China, but nope, it’s Vietnam!
Fun quiz. I would like to point out that the Vietnam and South Africa badges in your quiz are not the badges of the national teams, but the badges of their respective football associations (national governing bodies for the sport). I have made a quiz that features all FIFA national team badge logos and you are most welcome to use these images (some are made from scratch): All FIFA Member Nations by Badge
I don't think the South Africa badge is correct, it's certainly not on any of their kits in the last 30 years and doing a reverse image search didn't lead me to anything official looking. It seems to just be a fan design.
Are you sure? It's nowhere on the South African FA's website, the logo there is a football sitting behind a circle containing a map of SA. Looking at their kits that's been the FA's logo since at least the late 90s.
I am 100% certain – one need only look back to the 2010 World Cup to remember. It may be made more challenging given the fact that the South African men's team is often called 'Bafana Bafana'. Even the Wikipedia page shows the logo I suggest.
Is this the English Wikipedia page? I can't see the quiz's logo anywhere in the media files. I know that Wikipedia pages aren't consistent in content between languages though so maybe it's on a different language's page?
The logo depicted for South Africa is the Bafana Bafana logo, it is an official logo for the men's team and normally only appears on merchandise. There is also a women's team one that is different again and is much derided. I feel the protea logo that appears on all the national kits would be more appropriate than the one chosen. The logo with the two circles (south africa map in a circle in front of a football) is the South African FA, so not really what the quiz is looking for
This whole comment section I was looking for that one person who was going to make a big fuss out of this - congratulations to you. It's literally just a name. It's fine.
Americans call the sport “soccer” because before the sport came over to them, they had already created their own sport and had called it “football.” Which, of course, like everything Americans seem to do, they made sure the name didn’t make sense. Unless it’s name is because you run across the pitch on your feet (in which case every sport would be “football”), there is no logic behind it, as the only time you use your feet otherwise in the sport is to kick a field goal.
(Also, yes, I am American. And I almost forgot the logo because I haven’t watched them play because the team I has literally never made it past the round of sixteen in a World Cup in decades, at least not that I remember. And the best finish was literally the first Word Cup, going out 6-1 in the semifinals. And there were ONLY semifinals and finals in that World Cup knockout stages. Which really tells you something about “soccer” in the United States.)
They called it football when it was first codified, as were a range of other similar games. The name soccer came later as an informal way of distinguishing it from other types of football played within England (mostly rugby football), but the word soccer was taken around the world and was picked up by other nations who already had their own type of football. That having been said, the British were more than happy to use the word soccer throughout the 20th century alongside the more official and commonly-used 'football' until about the 1990s, when they/we got really weird on insisting that the word soccer is somehow "wrong" (or an Americanism"). Cultural memories can be very short.
The United States: No, it’s soccer because we named a sport that you don’t use your feet to use the sports ball “football”!
(I’m American, and it gets really annoying to have to call it “soccer” so that someone doesn’t try to make me pay a fine because I said “football” and they would think I meant American football, then ask to come watch it, and then when I put it on “soccer”, they would get annoying and complain to everyone they could. This literally happened.)
I have no idea why that's the badge being shown for South Africa. A google image search brings up probably 50 different images and not one of them is the one on the quiz. The two most common and the ones on the current soccer kit seem to be the football association logo and the protea badge.For me the google image search for the quiz logo returns more New England Patriot hits than South African football (2, one of which is jetpunk). It's not shown on the SAFA website at least not predominately and the SAFA Wikipedia page mentions a tertiary emblem that describes what's on the quiz. The Wikipedia page says that even though they've changed logos multiple times that most kits use both emblems I mentioned above.
PS: Nice quiz.
South Africa was a compelete guess.
Vietnam (zero) and SA (three times) are hardly ever at the World Cup so you don't see their badges.
(Also, yes, I am American. And I almost forgot the logo because I haven’t watched them play because the team I has literally never made it past the round of sixteen in a World Cup in decades, at least not that I remember. And the best finish was literally the first Word Cup, going out 6-1 in the semifinals. And there were ONLY semifinals and finals in that World Cup knockout stages. Which really tells you something about “soccer” in the United States.)
“Football”
Just pick a side.
The United States: No, it’s soccer because we named a sport that you don’t use your feet to use the sports ball “football”!
(I’m American, and it gets really annoying to have to call it “soccer” so that someone doesn’t try to make me pay a fine because I said “football” and they would think I meant American football, then ask to come watch it, and then when I put it on “soccer”, they would get annoying and complain to everyone they could. This literally happened.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Need a bit of flags, a bit of heraldry, some history and watching a bit of football probably helps as well