The mascot for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy was a green, white and red stick figure with a soccer ball head named Ciao.
The Final of the 1994 World Cup was played in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
American Bert Patenaude scored the first hat trick in World Cup history in a 3-0 victory over Paraguay in 1930.
FC Barcelona donates more than $1 million a year to UNICEF and wears the humanitarian organization's logo on its jersey.
The United States played its first-ever official international soccer match on August 20, 1916 against Sweden in Stockholm.