Rules of the Game: For FIFA matches, if a substitute enters the field of play without the referee’s permission, play is stopped, the substitute is cautioned, shown the yellow card and required to leave the field of play. Play is restarted with a dropped b
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 mascot for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain was an orange named Naranjito.
CONMEBOL, the South American Football Confederation, was founded in 1916 and has 10 member associations.
The first international soccer game was played in Glasgow, Scotland in 1872.