Rules of the Game: Within each penalty area, a penalty mark is made 12 yards (11 m) from the midpoint between the goalposts and equidistant to them. An arc of a circle with a radius of 10 yards (9.15 m) from each penalty mark is drawn outside the penalty
Rules of the Game: Goalposts and crossbar must have the same width and depth, which cannot exceed five inches (12 cm).
Goalkeeper is the only position to be explicitly part of the rules of the game since they were codified in the 19th century.
The mascots for the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan were futuristic, computer-generated creatures named Ato, Kaz and Nik.
Just Fontaine scored 13 goals for France in the 1958 World Cup, the most for an individual in a single tournament.
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