What better way to spend the long days waiting for the World Cup to enter the living room. How about spend hours in front of your smartphone trying to put all that seemingly useless football knowledge to good use by solving the World Cup emoji challenge?
The World Cup emoji challenge has been one of the most popular searches on Twitter and WhatsApp these past few days. People have been actively trying to figure out the answers to the 24 emoji-coded footballers. Some of them are obvious, while some of them are really tricky.
This is the challenge:
It’s viral status is growing by the day. While many fans have been eager to decipher the answers themselves, plugging their ears with cotton when friends try to give them an answer, other ones have been left frustrated by the inability to solve the riddles. For those less patient ones, we have the answers. Before revealing them, we must give you a heads up:
Warning: Spoiler alert!
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The answers
- Antoine Griezmann
- Neymar
- Andres Iniesta
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Toni Kroos
- Lionel Messi
- Harry Kane
- Paul Pogba
- Mo Salah
- Luka Modric
- David Silva
- Eden Hazard
- Sadio Mane
- Christian Eriksen
- Keisuke Honda
- Ricardo Quaresma
- Mesut Ozil
- Robert Lewandowski
- Tim Cahill
- Angel Di Maria
- Thibaut Courtois
- Luis Suarez
- Gylfi Sigurdsson
- Ilkay Gundogan