Rules of the Game: If a player wears thermal tights, they must be of the same main color as the player’s shorts.
The mascots for the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany were two boy characters named Tip and Tap.
The CONCACAF Championship/Gold Cup, first held in 1963, has been won seven times by Mexico and four times by the USA.
The Houston Dynamo edged the New England Revolution in the MLS Cup in both 2006 and 2007.
The United States played its first-ever official international soccer match on August 20, 1916 against Sweden in Stockholm.