Rules of the Game: The captain of a team has no special status or privileges under the FIFA Laws of the Game but he has a degree of responsibility for the behavior of his team.
Rules of the Game: An indirect free kick is awarded to the opposing team if a goalkeeper touches the ball with his hands after he has received it directly from a throw-in taken by a teammate.
Goalkeeper is the only position to be explicitly part of the rules of the game since they were codified in the 19th century.
Tab Ramos was announced as the first player to sign with Major League Soccer in January of 1995.
The United States won the first game in World Cup history when it defeated Belgium 3-0 in 1930.
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