The first shoe in adidas’ legendary Samba line was introduced in 1950.
Rules of the Game: The player making a throw-in may not touch the ball again until it has touched another player.
The mascot for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany was a lion named Goleo VI. He had a talking soccer ball sidekick named Pille.
Since the women's NCAA Div 1 championship was established in 1981, The University of North Carolina has won the tournament 19 times.
The U.S. Women's National Team went 51 games without a loss between 2004 and 2007.