The official ball for the 2006 World Cup was the adidas Teamgeist.
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
Passback has sent out over 151,000 pieces of soccer gear to needy teams and organizations over past 3 ½ years.
The first African nation to qualify for the World Cup was Egypt in 1934. The second was Morocco in 1970.
The U.S. Women's National Team's top two career goal scorers, Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly, were teammates at the University of North Carolina.