⚽ Get ready for a soccer trivia match! Kids and parents go head-to-head with questions about famous players, rules, positions, teams, and the biggest tournament in the world, the FIFA World Cup. Who’ll score the most goals and take home the trophy? 🏆🌎
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Kids vs Parents is produced by Vandalpop Media
Producer: Steve Koch
Editors: Ever Cunningham, Steve Koch
Cover Design: Patrick Hardy
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Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Kids vs Parents
01:44 Kids' Questions
09:42 Parents' Questions
14:55 Bonus / Tiebreaker
16:02 Suggest a Topic
Quick soccer question to start us off. How long is a professional soccer game without stoppage time?
Steve:Well, it's 90 minutes. 45 minute halves. 90 minutes.
Steve:That's correct.
Steve:Yay!
Steve:Welcome to Kids vs. Parents, the family trivia battle where the backseat takes on the front seat.
Steve:I'm Steve.
Lovella:And I'm Lovella.
Lovella:Today, we're playing soccer trivia with a bit of World Cup trivia thrown in.
Lovella:This episode was suggested by efranco26 on Spotify.
Steve:Thanks, efranco.
Steve:We're getting lots of comments on Spotify.
Lovella:We are.
Lovella:We are.
Steve:We love our comments.
Lovella:And we're getting to all those episodes you guys have requested.
Steve:We're trying to get to all of them.
Lovella:We're trying to get there.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:And so this week, the World Cup kicks off.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:Globally, around the world.
Steve:It's being played here in the US.
Steve:So we thought we would do a soccer episode to coincide with the World Cup.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Hopefully, you're all very excited about your country playing in the World Cup, if they're in it.
Steve:And we're excited about the USA and Australia being in the World Cup.
Steve:We are.
Steve:We're excited to watch them play.
Steve:All right.
Steve:The prize today, we normally do a prize for the winner.
Steve:But today we're going to do a punishment for the loser.
Steve:And to go in with the soccer theme, the loser of today's episode cannot use their hands.
Lovella:What?
Steve:For the next five minutes.
Lovella:Okay.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:So you've got to go five minutes without using your hands.
Steve:So if you're in your car, I don't know how you're going to get out of the car.
Steve:It's going to be tricky.
Lovella:What if you're a parent driving?
Steve:Well, maybe.
Lovella:And you're still on your way to school.
Steve:Maybe the five minutes starts when you get out of the car.
Steve:Safety first.
Steve:We want to be able to use your hands for driving.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Who goes first today, Lovella?
Lovella:How about the kids?
Steve:All right.
Steve:Should we do a coin toss to figure out who goes first today, Lovella?
Steve:No, Dad.
Lovella:No.
Steve:Heads or tails?
Steve:No.
Steve:Heads.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:Who goes first, Lovella?
Steve:Kids.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:All right, kids.
Steve:Get your boots on.
Steve:Shin pads in.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:What does a yellow card mean in soccer?
Lovella:Oh, a yellow card.
Steve:Has anybody on your team ever received a yellow card, Lovella?
Lovella:Well, maybe once.
Steve:Okay, yeah.
Lovella:But in my league, we only just started using them just this last season.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:Okay, so I know like a red card is like, yeah, you got to sit out or something or you can't
Lovella:play the rest of the game, something like that.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:A yellow card, it's like, it's a warning, I think.
Lovella:A warning?
Steve:Is that your answer?
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:You are correct.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:It is a warning.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:Do you know how many yellow cards until you get sent off?
Steve:Did I say two?
Steve:That's correct.
Steve:If you get two yellow cards, it equals a red.
Lovella:Yeah, because that kind of makes sense.
Steve:And now you're off.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:Like three.
Lovella:You've got three chances.
Steve:That's right.
Lovella:Or two chances and then you're off.
Steve:I promise you, you will see yellow cards and red cards all throughout the World Cup.
Steve:It can get pretty colorful.
Steve:Yeah, colorful.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:Painted with yellow and red.
Steve:Yeah, look out for those yellow cards and red cards in soccer.
Steve:There'll be some in the World Cup for sure.
Steve:All right, well done.
Steve:One on the board.
Steve:First one on the board.
Steve:First goal.
Steve:Well done.
Lovella:Oh, thank you.
Steve:Let's see if you can score again.
Lovella:I did a nice, clean corner kick.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:Question number two.
Steve:What is the job of the striker?
Lovella:What is the job of the striker?
Lovella:I should know this because I literally have played striker before.
Steve:Where were you in the field?
Lovella:But the thing, like, is it where am I in the field?
Steve:What is the job of the striker?
Steve:It's the main job of the striker.
Lovella:They're meant to be a striker because they're meant to be trying to score.
Steve:Right.
Lovella:They're a striker.
Steve:Right.
Lovella:They're meant to…
Steve:So, is that their job?
Lovella:I guess.
Steve:You are correct.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:I don't play a striker that often.
Steve:Technically speaking, everybody's job is to score a goal.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:But, you know, the defenders, they're usually not going to get a chance to score a goal.
Steve:Their job is to stop other people from scoring goals.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:Right?
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:So, the job of the striker is…
Lovella:To score goals.
Steve:To score goals.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:To score goals.
Steve:That is the job of the striker.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:Two on the board.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:Question number three.
Steve:I'm going to give you a World Cup kind of question now, okay?
Steve:Ooh, okay.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:Kind of nervous.
Steve:What country is Lionel Messi from?
Steve:Do you know who that player is?
Lovella:Yes, of course.
Lovella:He's like a crazy, amazing player.
Steve:He's like so popular.
Steve:He is.
Steve:So what country does he play for in the World Cup?
Lovella:I don't know what country, but I know he plays like for the Miami team, but I don't know what country.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:I mean, I kind of want to say US, but I don't think that's right.
Steve:That's okay.
Lovella:Oh, man.
Lovella:I'm going to guess a random country.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:But there's too many.
Steve:There is lots of.
Lovella:There's too many.
Steve:Soccer is very big in this country, which doesn't really help you because soccer is actually big in quite a lot of countries.
Steve:Any idea?
Steve:You want to have a guess?
Steve:Well.
Steve:A country that loves their soccer or their football.
Lovella:I'm guessing it's like somewhere in like South America maybe.
Steve:You are correct.
Steve:It is somewhere in South America.
Steve:Yep.
Steve:You're in the right place.
Steve:Give me a country in South America.
Lovella:Yes.
Lovella:I'm going to guess Brazil.
Lovella:I don't know.
Steve:It's a good guess.
Steve:Incorrect.
Lovella:Dang it.
Lovella:What was it?
Steve:Argentina.
Lovella:Oh, Argentina.
Lovella:It's from Argentina.
Steve:It's like a light blue-ish kind of uniform.
Lovella:I have seen him wearing that one.
Lovella:Yeah, I see a bunch of people wearing messy jerseys
Lovella:and they're light blue or pink.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:Yes, pink is Miami.
Steve:Light blue is Argentina.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Yeah, very good.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Last question.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:I'm going to stick with World Cup.
Steve:Is that okay?
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Because we're in the heat of World Cup at the moment.
Steve:So I love it.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:This question's a multiple choice, Lovella.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Which of these best describes the FIFA World Cup trophy?
Steve:So the look of the FIFA World Cup trophy.
Lovella:Okay.
Steve:A, a soccer ball coming out of a cloud.
Steve:B, a player kicking a soccer ball.
Steve:Or C, two people holding up the planet Earth.
Lovella:oh my gosh what huh oh man this is hard have you seen the world cup trophy before i don't i've
Lovella:never i don't think i've ever watched the world cup i'm like i am in like i play soccer and
Lovella:everything but i'm not like into it crazy enough to actually watch it all the time yeah and know
Lovella:everything about it.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:You're going to be having
Steve:an educated guess then here.
Steve:You're just going to be having
Steve:a random guess.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:So there's a soccer ball
Lovella:coming out of the cloud.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:A player kicking a soccer ball
Lovella:and then two people
Lovella:holding up the earth.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:A globe kind of thing.
Steve:Two people holding up a globe.
Lovella:Okay.
Steve:This is the FIFA World Cup trophy.
Steve:So there's only one of them
Steve:in existence.
Steve:And if you win it,
Steve:you know,
Steve:you get to,
Steve:I think it gets displayed
Steve:in your country possibly
Steve:until the next one
Steve:in four years
Steve:or possibly it stays somewhere.
Steve:Oh, that's cool.
Steve:I actually don't know about that
Steve:but there's only one of them.
Steve:It's made of like gold.
Lovella:Whoa.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:Wait, that's really cool.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:I'm going to look at what it actually is after this.
Steve:You've probably seen it on the TV.
Steve:If you watch a game, you probably see it in some capacity.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:As an icon or an image somewhere.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:A soccer ball coming out of a cloud kind of doesn't really make sense to me.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:But I could see it as it being a trophy.
Lovella:But I don't understand why it's a cloud.
Lovella:So I don't think it's going to be the soccer ball coming out of the cloud.
Lovella:The person kicking a soccer ball sounds like…
Steve:Like a trophy?
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:But then again, the next one is like two people holding up a globe.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:And this is the World Cup.
Steve:Right.
Lovella:So like…
Lovella:I don't know.
Steve:So A, B, or C.
Steve:You're saying…
Lovella:It's either B or C.
Steve:You think it's B or C.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:So a player kicking a soccer ball or two people holding up…
Steve:I don't know though.
Lovella:I could be wrong.
Steve:…the earth.
Steve:You could be wrong.
Steve:You could also be right.
Steve:I don't know.
Lovella:Man, I don't know.
Lovella:I think I'm just going to go with the globe one.
Lovella:So, see.
Steve:So, two people holding up the earth?
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:You are correct.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Oh, my goodness.
Steve:Thank goodness.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Let me quickly Google it and show you what it looks like now, Lovella,
Steve:so you can see what it looks like.
Steve:So, this is the FIFA World Cup trophy.
Steve:You see it?
Lovella:I think I have seen that.
Lovella:It just…
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:But can you see how I was trying to trick you with a soccer ball coming out of the clouds,
Steve:too?
Steve:Because it could kind of look like that if you weren't…
Steve:You didn't look at it closely?
Steve:You could see that it kind of could look like a soccer ball coming out of clouds?
Lovella:Yeah, or a soccer ball coming out of like a tornado.
Steve:Oh, okay.
Lovella:That's what I see.
Lovella:And it's kind of weird because it looks like the people are like,
Lovella:they're not actual like people statues, but they're like…
Steve:Like representations of people almost.
Steve:Representations.
Lovella:They're like in this like weird…
Steve:Twisty.
Lovella:Twisty thing.
Steve:Right.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:It looks like people, like just outlines of people in a tornado
Lovella:and there's the world coming out of it.
Steve:I like that description.
Steve:Thank you.
Steve:That's good.
Steve:All right, that's halftime.
Steve:You got three out of four.
Steve:Yeah, that's really good.
Steve:So you've got three goals.
Steve:You've scored three goals.
Steve:So I've got to try and beat that.
Steve:Parents, we got to try and get three or four goals to equal or beat the kids on our team
Steve:anyway.
Steve:Go get yourself some oranges and we'll see you back here for the next half.
Lovella:All righty.
Lovella:Parents, are you ready to start playing?
Steve:Oh, I'm ready.
Steve:Here we go.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Question number one.
Lovella:How many players are on the soccer field during a match?
Steve:How many players in total?
Lovella:In total.
Steve:In total.
Lovella:In total.
Steve:Okay, in total.
Lovella:So that's including like the goalie.
Steve:Yes, but it's not including the referee, right?
Steve:Because he's not a player.
Lovella:No, no, no, no.
Steve:How many players?
Lovella:Players.
Steve:Okay, so there are, in soccer, there are 11, I believe.
Steve:Is it 11?
Steve:No, yeah, there's 11.
Steve:There is 11 on a side, including the goal.
Steve:You go 10 out.
Steve:Yes, 11.
Steve:So 22 is my answer.
Lovella:You are correct.
Lovella:Yes.
Steve:Good.
Lovella:All right, question number two.
Lovella:Which player has won the most World Cup trophies?
Steve:Oh, boy.
Steve:Which player has won the most World Cup trophies?
Steve:Won the most.
Steve:Um, and the most that is going to be, um, I think this is, um, what's his name?
Steve:I think this is Pele, who's from Brazil, I think.
Steve:I believe Brazil have won the most trophies.
Lovella:Is that your answer?
Lovella:Is that your guess?
Steve:So I'm going to say Pele.
Steve:That is my guess.
Lovella:You're correct.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Nice.
Lovella:All right.
Steve:Love it.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Question number three.
Lovella:How many World Cup tournaments has Cristiano Ronaldo played in, including 2026?
Steve:Um, okay.
Steve:Wow.
Steve:Okay, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Steve:Okay, World Cups every four years.
Steve:How long has he been playing?
Steve:Four.
Steve:So he's in 2026.
Steve:So two, definitely two, definitely three.
Steve:Has he done four?
Steve:Has he done four?
Steve:I'm going to say, it's a long time.
Steve:I'm going to say three.
Steve:He's only done three.
Lovella:The correct answer was six.
Steve:What?
Lovella:I know.
Steve:Six?
Steve:No way.
Steve:That's a lot.
Steve:He's got to be the most.
Lovella:Is he the most?
Lovella:Crazy.
Lovella:He played in 2006, 2010.
Lovella:So that was his first one.
Lovella:2014, 2018, 2022, and 2026.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Wow.
Steve:I know.
Steve:Well done, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Steve:You've played a lot of World Cups.
Steve:Okay?
Lovella:I know.
Steve:Crazy.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Last question.
Lovella:What country is famous for the team nickname, the Three Lions?
Steve:Oh, okay.
Steve:The Three Lions.
Steve:Who has lions in there?
Steve:I wonder if that's, is that referring to the logo?
Steve:Oh, that could be, is that England?
Steve:Does England have lions in their logo?
Steve:Who knows?
Steve:Well, you know the answer.
Steve:Ah, the three lions.
Steve:Ah, or is it Scotland?
Steve:Does Scotland have lions?
Steve:No, I feel like England, they like their lions.
Steve:They put lions everywhere.
Steve:Don't they?
Steve:I feel like they put lions everywhere.
Steve:I think they're gonna
Lovella:I don't know
Steve:I feel like
Steve:England like their lions
Steve:I'm gonna say England
Lovella:you are
Lovella:correct
Steve:I am
Steve:yes
Lovella:good job
Steve:thank you
Lovella:so
Steve:why are they called the
Steve:why are they called the three lions
Steve:is it because of their logo
Lovella:yes
Lovella:it's because their logo
Lovella:they've got like three
Lovella:it looks like to me
Lovella:three swimming lions
Steve:three swimming lions
Lovella:yeah
Steve:okay
Steve:let me look it up
Lovella:come on
Lovella:look at it
Lovella:and you're like
Lovella:they look like they're swimming
Steve:oh you're right
Steve:it does
Steve:angry swimming lions.
Steve:They look like they're angry.
Lovella:I'm going to swim.
Steve:Two angry swimming lions.
Lovella:But yes.
Steve:I love it.
Steve:Okay, so I…
Lovella:Three out of four.
Lovella:Me three out of four.
Steve:We're a draw.
Lovella:It's a tie.
Steve:It's a draw.
Steve:We've got to go to penalty shootouts.
Lovella:Penalty shootouts?
Steve:Penalty shootouts.
Steve:This is so exciting.
Lovella:I've never gotten to do these before.
Steve:You haven't?
Steve:No.
Lovella:Maybe once.
Steve:So our penalty shootouts is called a tiebreaker round.
Lovella:Yes.
Steve:So we're going to have one question.
Steve:And the winner of this wins the whole game.
Steve:First to answer, wins the trophy.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Wins the World Cup.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:One question.
Steve:I have the question ready.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:Scrolling down my page.
Steve:I don't know the answer to this.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Are you ready?
Steve:I am.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Bonus or tiebreaker question.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:What is the name of the award for the top goal scorer at the World Cup?
Lovella:buzz i don't know you don't know i don't really know that much about the world cup i i know this
Steve:one okay the top goal scorer is the award is called the golden boot oh that's so fancy yeah
Steve:yeah it's called the golden i actually think they get a golden boot trophy i think they get like it's
Steve:a clip it's a soccer boot it's all gold i love that like real gold i don't know i'm sure someone
Steve:hasn't just spray painted it gold. I'm sure it's pretty fancy. It's probably made of real gold.
Steve:Wow. That's cool. Well, thank you for playing World Cup trivia or soccer trivia. We hope you
Steve:had a great time playing with us today and we hope your team does really well in the World Cup.
Steve:Yes. Good luck to everyone.
Steve:Support them. It's a really fun time to watch some soccer and get into the spirit of it all.
Steve:And if you liked playing this soccer episode, you might really like to play our baseball episode
Steve:that we did a little while ago.
Lovella:Yes.
Lovella:We've put a link to it in the show notes
Lovella:so you can play it next.
Steve:Thanks for playing World Cup Soccer Tribute with us today.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Full time.
Lovella:Have a nice day.
Lovella:Bye.
Steve:See you next time.
Steve:Bye.