Pre-Match Poser no.20: Can you answer this elite-level football quiz question?

Another week, another Pre-Match Poser…

What connects Lucas Radebe’s team, a Portsmouth loanee, a player who scored in multiple World Cup finals and, according to some, the source of England’s troubles at the 2006 World Cup?

We'll reveal the answer this time next week in the next edition of The Pre-Match Poser – stay tuned for that – but for now, here's the answer to last week's conundrum…

Q. Who’s the next player in the sequence and why? Lothar Matthaus, Hristo Stoichkov, Michael Owen, Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric…

A. It’s Karim Benzema. Yes, they’ve all won Ballon d’Ors – but this is a list of Ballon d’Or winners who have also been coached by Ballon d’Or winners: Matthaus by Franz Beckenbauer, Stoichkov by Johan Cruyff, Owen by Kevin Keegan, and Ronaldo, Modric and Benzema by Zinedine Zidane. Ballonception.

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