Rules of the Game: The captain of a team has no special status or privileges under the FIFA Laws of the Game but he has a degree of responsibility for the behavior of his team.
Rules of the Game: A goal cannot be scored directly from a throw-in.
The mascots for the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany were two boy characters named Tip and Tap.
The first international soccer game was played in Glasgow, Scotland in 1872.
Bora Milutinovic is the only man to coach five World Cups with five different teams: Mexico, Costa Rica, United States, Nigeria and China.