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 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina was a boy character named Gauchito.
The first non-European nation to join FIFA was South Africa in 1909.
Unlike the Olympics, FIFA recognizes the four Home Nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland- as separate entities.
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