Rules of the Game: All field marking lines should not be more than 12 cm (5 inches) wide.
Spain's La Liga had its first season in 1928.
The mascot for the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico was a sombrero-wearing jalapeno pepper named Pique.
The mascots for the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan were futuristic, computer-generated creatures named Ato, Kaz and Nik.
The earliest documented use of the word football appears in a proclamation by King Henry IV of England in 1409.