Rules of the Game: If a team finishes a match with a greater number of players than their opponents and penalty kicks are taken to determine the winner of a match, that team shall reduce their numbers to equal that of their opponents. The team captain has
Rules of the Game: In the event that the game ball should burst or fail somehow during the run of play, the referee will immediately stop the match until the game can be resumed by calling for a drop ball at the spot of the failure with a fresh ball.
The mascot for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain was an orange named Naranjito.
Mexico's most famous stadium, Estadio Azteca, has an official seating capacity of 114,465.
Substitutions were allowed for the first time in the 1970 World Cup.