Rules of the Game: During penalty kicks to determine the winner of a match, each kick is taken by a different player and all eligible players must take a kick before any player can take a second kick.
Uruguay beat Argentina to win the first World Cup in 1930 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people.
The mascot for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France was a cockerel (or rooster) named Footix.
As of December, 2007, FIFA has 208 member associations -which is 16 more than the United Nations.
U.S. Men’s National Team played their first ever game in 1916 vs. Sweden in Stockholm.