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.
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.
Attendance for the 1950 World Cup Final at Maracana Stadium in Brazil was an amazing 199,500!
The first soccer game based on English FA rules in the United States took place between Rutgers University and Princeton University on Novermber 6, 1869.
Of the 16 members of the USA's first World Cup team in 1930, five were born in Scotland and one in England.
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