Rules of the Game: On a soccer field, the two longer boundary lines are called touch lines. The two shorter lines are called goal lines.
The mascots for the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany were two boy characters named Tip and Tap.
The mascot for the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina was a boy character named Gauchito.
Mexico's most famous stadium, Estadio Azteca, has an official seating capacity of 114,465.
The United States played its first-ever official international soccer match on August 20, 1916 against Sweden in Stockholm.