Rules of the Game: Goalposts and crossbar must have the same width and depth, which cannot exceed five inches (12 cm).
The mascot for the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina was a boy character named Gauchito.
The youngest player to score in the German Bundesliga was Nuri Sahin of Borussia Dortmund (16 years and 335 days) in 2005.
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.
Just Fontaine scored 13 goals for France in the 1958 World Cup, the most for an individual in a single tournament.
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