Rules of the Game: During penalty kicks to determine the winner of a match, all players, except the player taking the kick and the two goalkeepers, must remain within the center circle.
Rules of the Game: The ball is in play at all other times it rebounds from either the referee or an assistant referee when they are on the field of play.
The mascot for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany was a lion named Goleo VI. He had a talking soccer ball sidekick named Pille.
FC Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium has the largest official seating capacity in Europe: 98,787.
America's best performance in the World Cup since 1930 came in 2002, when the Yanks made it to the quarterfinals.
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