Rules of the Game: The referee alone is authorized to allow an injured player to re-enter the field, whether the ball is in play or not.
The mascot for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France was a cockerel (or rooster) named Footix.
The Oceania Football Confederation consists of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and nine other Pacific island nations.
Of the 16 members of the USA's first World Cup team in 1930, five were born in Scotland and one in England.
The United States played its first-ever official international soccer match on August 20, 1916 against Sweden in Stockholm.
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