text: 3 stupid question: 1) what is a "cap" or "caps"; 2) difference between a "shot", and a "shot on goal"; 3) why would ita and cze not just secretly agree to a draw to make sure usa could not get in? there's no such thing as a stupid question.  1. cap - number of international matches played. 2. shot - says it all    shot on goal - a shot that would've been a goal if no-one stopped/touched it , also if a goal does come from it it is called a shot on goal.  3. they could do that. in 1982 austria and germany played a match which if it ended 0-1 both team would qualify and algeria would be eliminated. not surprisingly it ended 0-1 and a newspaper the next morning wrote that the only thing they did not do was smoke the peace-pipe together. that match was an embarrasement to fifa. i think fifa will do everything they can to prevent this. one measure they have taken is to play the last matches at the same time. and i think that in the regulations there is a paragraph that says that you should do everything within your power to win a match. but that's hard to prove, of course.