Rules of the Game: An indirect free kick is awarded to the opposing team if a goalkeeper touches the ball with his hands after he has received it directly from a throw-in taken by a teammate.
The mascot for the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina was a boy character named Gauchito.
The United States is a member of CONCACAF, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football.
FC Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium has the largest official seating capacity in Europe: 98,787.
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.
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