Rules of the Game: The distance between the posts of an official goal is 8 yards (7.32 m) and the distance from the lower edge of the crossbar to the ground is 8 feet (2.44 m).
Soccer was first played as an official Olympic competition in 1908. Great Britain won the Gold that year.
The oldest soccer club in the world is England's Sheffield FC, founded in 1857.
The team sponsored by Bethlehem Steel won four out of the first six US Open Cup tournaments- 1915, '16, '18 and '19.
America's best performance in the World Cup since 1930 came in 2002, when the Yanks made it to the quarterfinals.