Rules of the Game: Within each penalty area, a penalty mark is made 12 yards (11 m) from the midpoint between the goalposts and equidistant to them. An arc of a circle with a radius of 10 yards (9.15 m) from each penalty mark is drawn outside the penalty
Goalkeeper is the only position to be explicitly part of the rules of the game since they were codified in the 19th century.
FIFA is made of of six confederations: AFC, CAF, CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, OFC and UEFA.
Since the women's NCAA Div 1 championship was established in 1981, The University of North Carolina has won the tournament 19 times.
Of the 16 members of the USA's first World Cup team in 1930, five were born in Scotland and one in England.