Rules of the Game: The player making a throw-in may not touch the ball again until it has touched another player.
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.
Rules of the Game: In the event that the game ball should burst or fail somehow during the run of play, the referee will immediately stop the match until the game can be resumed by calling for a drop ball at the spot of the failure with a fresh ball.
Soccer was first played as an official Olympic competition in 1908. Great Britain won the Gold that year.
The mascot for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain was an orange named Naranjito.
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