Rules of the Game: On a soccer field, the two longer boundary lines are called touch lines. The two shorter lines are called goal lines.
The U.S. Governing body for the sport did not have soccer in its name until 1945, when it became the U.S. Soccer Football Association.
The earliest documented use of the word football appears in a proclamation by King Henry IV of England in 1409.
Of the 16 members of the USA's first World Cup team in 1930, five were born in Scotland and one in England.
Hungary scored 27 goals in the 1954 World Cup, more than any other country in a single World Cup.
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