Rules of the Game: During penalty kicks to determine the winner of a match, all players, except the player taking the kick and the two goalkeepers, must remain within the center circle.
Rules of the Game: A goal cannot be scored directly from a throw-in.
England's Football Association first legalized professional soccer players in 1885.
The first non-European nation to join FIFA was South Africa in 1909.
The first appearance of organized women's soccer in the US may have been in 1922, when a team sponsored by English company Dick, Kerr toured the country -and beat several top men's teams.