Insporta Book
The knowledge behind every test.
Insporta tests what you know about your sport, ten questions at a time. This is where the facts come from: 606 tests, 6,060 facts, every one with its source, plus the research and the rules we write by.
Sports
FootballTactics, systems and the Laws of the Game.2 levels · 14 Laws · 2,510 factsCricketFrom the shape of a match to the modern professional game.5 levels · 1,300 factsFutsalThe five-a-side game: its Laws, skills and team shape.3 levels · 750 factsTriathlonSwim, bike and run: rules, training and racing.3 levels · 1,500 facts
Guides
88 pagesFootball · Level 5: Upper-IntermediatePressing Triggers & GegenpressingFrom Michels and Sacchi to Klopp and Iraola: pressing triggers, counterpressing principles, cover shadows, traps, PPDA and high turnovers — and what happens when the press breaks.10 tests · 100 factsFootball · Level 5: Upper-IntermediatePossession PhilosophiesTotal Football, Cruyff's Dream Team, tiki-taka, juego de posición and relationism: superiorities, the third man, rondos, possession metrics — and the failure modes of the ball-dominant game.10 tests · 100 factsFootball · Level 5: Upper-IntermediateDirect & Counter-Attacking FootballFrom Reep and catenaccio to Mourinho, Simeone and Leicester: verticality, transitions, second balls, rest attack, counter metrics — and the modern direct turn of 2025-26.10 tests · 100 factsFootball · Level 5: Upper-IntermediatePlaying Out from the BackSweeper-keepers, the salida lavolpiana, the +1 principle, inverted full-backs and the 2019 goal-kick law: how modern teams build from the gloves up — and what it costs when it breaks.10 tests · 100 factsFootball · Level 5: Upper-IntermediateDefensive Schemes & The Offside TrapLaw 11 from 1925 to SAOT, pressure-cover-balance, block mechanics, the trap's cues and catastrophes — and the champions built from the back, from Graham's Arsenal to Flick's Barcelona.10 tests · 100 factsFootball · Level 5: Upper-IntermediateAttacking Geometry: Half-Spaces & WidthHalbraum, false nines, inverted wingers, overlap-versus-underlap, wing-back width, five-corridor pitches, cut-backs and box geometry: how modern teams draw the field to make attack.10 tests · 100 factsFootball · Level 5: Upper-IntermediateSet-Piece Design & Dead-Ball SpecialistsFrom Panenka in Belgrade to Jover at Arsenal and Cueva at Chelsea: corner routines and blockers, in-swingers and out-swingers, walls and Panenkas, long throws and dead-ball specialists — and the failure modes that…10 tests · 100 factsFootball · Level 5: Upper-IntermediateFootball Analytics: xG & BeyondFrom Charles Reep's notebook to StatsBomb 360: xG, PSxG, xA, xT, OBV, VAEP and field tilt — how the game learned to value events, actions and positions, the people who built the tools and the specific ways models…10 tests · 100 factsFootball · Level 5: Upper-IntermediateFormations & Their LogicFrom the 2-3-5 pyramid and Chapman's WM to Bielsa's 3-3-1-3, Alonso's 3-4-2-1 and Guardiola's 3-2-4-1: how numeric shapes evolved, how coaches use them, how they transform between in-possession and out-of-possession,…10 tests · 100 factsFootball · Level 5: Upper-IntermediateWomen's Football: Tactics & Modern EraFrom Dick, Kerr Ladies and the 1921 FA ban through Marta, Wiegman and Bonmatí to Arsenal's 2025 Lisbon win: how the women's game's tactical vocabulary has converged with the elite men's game, the era's landmark…10 tests · 100 factsFootball · Level 6: AdvancedPositional Play (Juego de Posición)Below the survey level 5 gave possession football: how superiority is created and lost, what the occupation rules mean in awkward moments, third-man timing, rotations, how good defences break positional play, how it…10 tests · 100 factsFootball · Level 6: AdvancedWide Play and Role InversionBelow level 5's survey of width: the inverted winger's duel, choosing between overlap and underlap by what the defender shows, inverted and false full-backs, holding width from a back three, choosing the delivery,…10 tests · 100 facts
Science
What the research says about testing sport knowledge, and why generic brain training does not predict playing level.
Methodology
How a question is written, what it may measure, how distractors are built and how every fact is checked.