The Passback program provides used but playable soccer gear to needy teams and organizations around the world and here at home.
The mascot for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France was a cockerel (or rooster) named Footix.
The African Cup of Nations, the main international football competition in Africa, was first held in 1957.
The United States has never won a World Cup game on European soil.
Bora Milutinovic is the only man to coach five World Cups with five different teams: Mexico, Costa Rica, United States, Nigeria and China.