Rules of the Game: During penalty kicks to determine the winner of a match, all players, except the player taking the kick and the two goalkeepers, must remain within the center circle.
England's Football Association first legalized professional soccer players in 1885.
The mascot for the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the USA was a dog character named Striker.
The first African nation to qualify for the World Cup was Egypt in 1934. The second was Morocco in 1970.
The US Women have won the prestigious Algarve Cup tournament in Portugal five times as of 2007.
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