India, Aug. 1 -- A question on Sarina Wiegman in a quiz last month and another on Crispin Chettri were but two examples of the growing popularity of women's football in Kolkata. The poser on Wiegman was her connection with a number Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja - and every other cricketer whose names are not Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook or Ben Stokes - would have hated to be stranded on. That on Chhetri was related to his youth debut for India. At the Kolkata Sports Quiz Festival, which kicked off with the football quiz, both were answered.

Wiegman was weeks from notching up her hattrick of European championship titles but among trivia hunters and football nuts, these tribes are not always mutually exclusive, she was alread...