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.
The mascots for the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany were two boy characters named Tip and Tap.
Gerd Muller, who played for Bayern Munich from 1965-79, is the all-time leading scorer in the German Bundesliga with 365 goals in 427 games.
American Bert Patenaude scored the first hat trick in World Cup history in a 3-0 victory over Paraguay in 1930.
Bora Milutinovic is the only man to coach five World Cups with five different teams: Mexico, Costa Rica, United States, Nigeria and China.