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: 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
The 1970 and 1986 World Cups were held in Mexico.
Mexican goalkeeper Antonio Carbajal played in five consecutive World Cups (1950-66).
Substitutions were allowed for the first time in the 1970 World Cup.