Before we start I must say it's my first puzzle. I hope it won't be too easy for you :)


Some important informations:

Puzzle ends at Monday evening (GMT).

If there won't be much solvers (less then 8) in the middle of the week I'll write more about puzzle and maybe give you some more hints.

Rules - as always in puzzles, you know them: no sharing answers and links, no spoiling, no giving hints, no telling what the prize is.

Have fun!

About puzzle: It's a match you have to play. It has 5 stages: 1st - warm up (here), 2nd - tactical briefing, 3rd - first half, 4th - second half, 5th - end of match.


There are 2 giveaways to find!

First one is closed. But there is another one at the end of the match. Don't forget that.

Clear your mind, look carefully, use your skills. Don't let the coach substitute you before end of the game. Listen to his advices.


HINTS ARE HERE

Warm up - Isn't it strange that coach think there are five stars in other team? And he gives sometimes number, sometimes name?

Tactical briefing - hint is in description. You see - coach has deep thoughts too.

First half:
Q1 - It's connected with Q4 a little. At last you can try brute force. Sometimes it helps on the field.
Q2 - Answer is easy. You don't have to go to France to find it. Just look at me.
Q3 - What dance? Who was dancing? - Ask the goalkeeper, he knows.
Q5 - Look at the question. Is it right or wrong? Does your answer is right or wrong?

Second half - if you don't know how to get to this part bring to mind what you did during warm up. But it is match now, not warm-up. So it won't be exactly the same.


Before match starts you have to warm up. It prevents injuries during the game. Just go on the pitch and run a little, stretch muscles, pass ball and shoot in the net.

Meanwhile coach is receiving informations about opposing squad. Here it is: 1. Boruc - 4.Zanetti (C), 28 Cannavaro, 23. Ranocchia, 17. Wasilewski - 19. Cambiasso, 34 de Jong, 6. Faraoni - 9. Pozzi, 11. van Persie, 10. to Madeira.

He thinks the stars of this team are:

11
Zanetti
10
Pozzi
17

Remember, always listen to your coach.


SOLUTION! SOLUTION! SOLUTION!

First I would like to congratulate one and only, the best of the best: Botev1912 who is the only player who ended the match!

Now let's go to solution.

Warm-up - You should figured out why there are 5 star player, and why there are names mixed with numbers. It is easy - 5 because steamgifts address has 5 chars. Names and numbers - you should take first letter or digit of player from coach notes:
11 it's (v)an Persie
Zanetti it's (4)
10 it's (t)o Madeira
Pozzi it's (9)
17 it's (W)asilewski
So you've got now v4t9W which means http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/v4t9W/ address.

It is tactical briefing. Here you should figured out what my funny thought mean. Why "connect dots"? Under the dots (view source option) there are links to images:
http://imgur.com/DE8aC
http://imgur.com/gfiTG
http://imgur.com/WRQ1y
http://imgur.com/mlBsL
http://imgur.com/rYDYX
http://imgur.com/xqRyO
http://imgur.com/DmnbZ
http://imgur.com/Q5JHn
http://imgur.com/2veeI

If you look closely you will see that there is one typo on each picture (excluding number 4 - coach did a mistake). So you should "connect" every wrong letter to get this code: nqnGhrCO
8 charts means only one - itstoohard link. Now you have http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/nqnGhrCO

First half.
Answers are not so easy as they look like.
Q1 - answer: 7 - my favourite player is Alessandro del Piero. He was the legend of Juventus Football Club. He switched his number from 10 to 7 beacuse he "gave" 10 to Totti.
Q2 - Loic Remy. It wasn't question about real match. It was about my Football Manager career. I put movie on my steam account and named it "Football Manager - Loic Remy's superb goal". Easy isn't it?
Q3 - Liverpool. The dance it's Dudek Dance! Do you remember that Champions League final?
Q4 - Juventus. Just look at the picture from "connect dots part.
Q5 - Kristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (Kristiano Ronaldo is correct too). Now you know why I changed K to C and C to K in question?

Now you have 5 answers. Number 5 - does it look familiar? But this time it wasn't steamgifts link. It was imgur code. First letters (or numbers) taken from answers are: 7lljk and you have http://imgur.com/7lljk

Second half started. You are in corner. In corner you say? Look carefully there. Under the post. Wat is it? Some numbers and letters maybe? Five of them? IR9dD is that steamgifts code? Better check this...
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/IR9dD

Thank you for playing! :)

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oh that football, meh

1 decade ago
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+1

1 decade ago
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Solved first level anyway :)

1 decade ago
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You mean real football.

1 decade ago
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american football is much harder and complicated.

1 decade ago
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So is chess, but that doesn't mean it's better.

1 decade ago
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Soccer is a good game. Football is a good game. Hockey's better than both. ;P

1 decade ago
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Oh, shit, he pulled out the "chess" card. The rest of you are all intellectually inferior. Chess is the game of KINGS. Soccer / football is a game for hooligans. American football is a game for people who need 40+ seconds between each thought.

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Let us think a little. " American football is a game for people who need 40+ seconds between each thought.". Chess much more, football much less. Does it mean that football (soccer) is for the most intelligent people on planet Earth?

1 decade ago
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I'm just playing. There's not a sport I enjoy watching [on TV] more than NFL football.

1 decade ago
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I was joking too

1 decade ago
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Quite clever on twisting it around in favor of football. :)

1 decade ago
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:)

1 decade ago
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Lol just teasing you. I find American football unnecessarily complicated :/ it could be that I grew up in a totally different culture (i'm Argentinean BTW). Maybe if I were Venezuelan or Cuban I'd be fonder of baseball :B

And I really think soccer was invented first. Which means nothing, but still xD

1 decade ago
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To me, American football is the ultimate team game. Everyone is doing something at all times. What taught me to really appreciate it was one of the Madden games and controlling the running back. You realize then it's not just jocks banging into each other for no reason, rather creating space and lanes for the running back. Wish Madden came back to PC ... on Steam.

1 decade ago
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I'm on the internet, why would I do sports?

Seriously though, good luck to everyone who aren't clueless when it comes to football.

1 decade ago
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+1 :D

1 decade ago
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don't understand what should I must to do

1 decade ago
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same

1 decade ago
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Bump for solved. I'm a Gunner for my sins :p

1 decade ago
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Match last fo 90 minutes. You just ended warm up :)

I added one sentence there. Don't forget, it's only tactical briefing!

1 decade ago
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Okay, Coach!! I know what you mean.

1 decade ago
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no suarez?

1 decade ago
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It's about English football, not handball, diving, cheating or other things.

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1 decade ago
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Jesus Christ, he's deplorable. Good player... but an absolute cunt.

1 decade ago
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I could not help to laugh at the last one.

1 decade ago
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Bump for solved.

1 decade ago
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I've made it to the match, got Q1/Q4, but I'm clueless about Q3 and Q2/Q5 I have answers for which seem right but maybe it's harder than it looks. Think I'll have to hope for hints :/

1 decade ago
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Pretty much same here. Dunno, maybe the answer for Q2 is misspelled or something as there aren't many possible answers there ;) If you got what I mean :)

1 decade ago
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It's to early for the hints :)

1 decade ago
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I have only Q3 left after the hint

1 decade ago
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Bump for update and new hint.

1 decade ago
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what am i even supposed to do??.

1 decade ago
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bump for update

1 decade ago
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van Perise?

1 decade ago
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yeah :/ I think there may also be typos in the quiz later.

1 decade ago
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Sorry for that. Edited.
Also bump for new hint

1 decade ago
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If I'll listen to my couch's advices, people gonna think that I'm nuts.

1 decade ago
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Hehe thanks for finding typo :)

1 decade ago
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The first half is over.

Edit: Now I can't return to the field to start the second half.

1 decade ago
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There are 2 players who end first half! And one of them end the match!

1 decade ago
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Bump for new hint!

We have new player who passed through 1st half but still only one player ended match.

1 decade ago
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I'm sorry for asking. but, no links? i'm too late?

1 decade ago
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Puzzle ends at Monday evening. Part of it is to find the link.

1 decade ago
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thanks for the info i'm still new to this so didn't get the hint. but football is my thing!... but i need to pass the warm up first which i haven't got a clue yet.

1 decade ago
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q3 - it's a person or a club?

1 decade ago
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"gave them" - so it can't be one person

1 decade ago
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q3 is very difficult. I spent a day on it and nothing.

1 decade ago
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It's much easier with the hint.

1 decade ago
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I must be blind, I can't find link :D

1 decade ago
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Baceause there is no direct link. Puzzle is the link :)

1 decade ago
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I mean link to puzzle or this is such a complicated thing that my mind just can't comprehend :D

1 decade ago
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When I tried to solve first puzzle i was exactly the same :) But then solution came out and everything was clear. I'm going to write solution to this, but you still have time to look on other puzzles solutions. Maybe it helps to pass through warm-up :)

1 decade ago
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Bump for last hints.

Still only one player ended the match, 4 players passed through 1st half.

1 decade ago
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wtttttttffffff where the puzzle

1 decade ago
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Ok, now I want to see how to solve that "to easy" part. I've tried so many combinations of answers from itstoohard quiz on so many sites without any success.

1 decade ago
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You gonna hit your head in the wall when you see how easy the solution was :)

1 decade ago
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Tell me.

1 decade ago
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one of the first puzzle i tried and didn't even manage to get to the questions. :p
hoping to see the solutions and learn from it.
i already have fm13 though lol.

1 decade ago
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When I strated to solve puzzles here I didn't know what to do :)

Bump for solution :)

1 decade ago
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Great puzzle. Too bad I didn't know the q3.

1 decade ago
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Closed 1 decade ago by loczek187.