Rules of the Game: The distance between the posts of an official goal is 8 yards (7.32 m) and the distance from the lower edge of the crossbar to the ground is 8 feet (2.44 m).
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The mascot for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany was a lion named Goleo VI. He had a talking soccer ball sidekick named Pille.
The first non-European nation to join FIFA was South Africa in 1909.
Of the 16 members of the USA's first World Cup team in 1930, five were born in Scotland and one in England.