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: The distance between the posts of an official goal is 8 yards (7.32 m) and the distance from the lower edge of the crossbar to the ground is 8 feet (2.44 m).
Soccer was first played as an official Olympic competition in 1908. Great Britain won the Gold that year.
The name soccer comes from association football, which is the sport's formal name.
Hungary scored 27 goals in the 1954 World Cup, more than any other country in a single World Cup.
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