Rules of the Game: The referee alone is authorized to allow an injured player to re-enter the field, whether the ball is in play or not.
Rules of the Game: The captain of a team has no special status or privileges under the FIFA Laws of the Game but he has a degree of responsibility for the behavior of his team.
Goalkeeper is the only position to be explicitly part of the rules of the game since they were codified in the 19th century.
The CONCACAF Championship/Gold Cup, first held in 1963, has been won seven times by Mexico and four times by the USA.
The United States played its first-ever official international soccer match on August 20, 1916 against Sweden in Stockholm.