Rules of the Game: According to FIFA, goalposts and crossbars must always be painted white.
The mascot for the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina was a boy character named Gauchito.
The oldest soccer club in the world is England's Sheffield FC, founded in 1857.
The North American Soccer League (NASL) existed from 1968 to 1984 with teams in the United States and Canada.
The United States played its first-ever official international soccer match on August 20, 1916 against Sweden in Stockholm.