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.
Eurosport has been providing soccer-lovers like you with high quality gear since 1984.
UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) was founded in Switzerland in 1954 and has 53 members.
The first non-European nation to join FIFA was South Africa in 1909.
In the early years of of the game, American soccer was dominated by teams from New England, particularly Fall River, New Bedford and Pawtucket.