Rules of the Game: The player making a throw-in may not touch the ball again until it has touched another player.
Rules of the Game: For international matches the field of play must have dimensions of: Length: minimum 100 m (110 yds), maximum 110 m (120 yds); Width: minimum 64 m (70 yds), maximum 75 m (80 yds).
Uruguay beat Argentina to win the first World Cup in 1930 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people.
The mascots for the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan were futuristic, computer-generated creatures named Ato, Kaz and Nik.
The oldest soccer club in the world is England's Sheffield FC, founded in 1857.