Rules of the Game: The player making a throw-in may not touch the ball again until it has touched another player.
FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) was founded in Paris on May 21, 1904.
The mascots for the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan were futuristic, computer-generated creatures named Ato, Kaz and Nik.
The earliest documented use of the word football appears in a proclamation by King Henry IV of England in 1409.
The United States is a member of CONCACAF, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football.