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.
Germany's Bundesliga was formed in 1963.
Mexico's most famous stadium, Estadio Azteca, has an official seating capacity of 114,465.
The most prolific goal-scorer in the North American Soccer League was Italian Giorgio Chinaglia of the New York Cosmos: 242 goals in 254 games.
The first soccer league in the United States was the American Football Association, which existed from 1884-88.