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: Corner flags must be on non-pointed posts that are at least five feet (1.5 m) high.
Soccer was first played as an official Olympic competition in 1908. Great Britain won the Gold that year.
The youngest player to score in the German Bundesliga was Nuri Sahin of Borussia Dortmund (16 years and 335 days) in 2005.
More than 90,000 people filled the Rose Bowl to watch the United States defeat China in the 1999 Women's World Cup final.