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.
Germany's Bundesliga was formed in 1963.
UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) was founded in Switzerland in 1954 and has 53 members.
The earliest documented use of the word football appears in a proclamation by King Henry IV of England in 1409.
The oldest soccer club in the world is England's Sheffield FC, founded in 1857.