Rules of the Game: On a soccer field, the two longer boundary lines are called touch lines. The two shorter lines are called goal lines.
The mascot for the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico was a boy character named Jaunito.
The earliest documented use of the word football appears in a proclamation by King Henry IV of England in 1409.
The first soccer game based on English FA rules in the United States took place between Rutgers University and Princeton University on Novermber 6, 1869.
Columbus Crew Stadium, opened in 1999, was the first major soccer specific stadium in the U.S..
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