Rules of the Game: Coaches and other officials must remain within the confines of the technical area except in special circumstances, for example, a trainer or doctor entering the field of play, with the referee’s permission, to assess an injured player.
Rules of the Game: During penalty kicks to determine the winner of a match, the goalkeeper who is the teammate of the kicker must remain on the field of play, outside the penalty area in which the kicks are being taken, and on the goal line where it meets
Rules of the Game: During a kick-off, the kicker may not touch the ball a second time until it has touched another player.
Goalkeeper is the only position to be explicitly part of the rules of the game since they were codified in the 19th century.
The Houston Dynamo edged the New England Revolution in the MLS Cup in both 2006 and 2007.