Rules of the Game: During penalty kicks to determine the winner of a match, all players, except the player taking the kick and the two goalkeepers, must remain within the center circle.
The earliest documented use of the word football appears in a proclamation by King Henry IV of England in 1409.
The first soccer league in the United States was the American Football Association, which existed from 1884-88.
Hungary scored 27 goals in the 1954 World Cup, more than any other country in a single World Cup.
Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane have both been named FIFA World Player of the Year three times.