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.
Rules of the Game: For FIFA matches, if a substitute enters the field of play without the referee’s permission, play is stopped, the substitute is cautioned, shown the yellow card and required to leave the field of play. Play is restarted with a dropped b
UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) was founded in Switzerland in 1954 and has 53 members.
The first African nation to qualify for the World Cup was Egypt in 1934. The second was Morocco in 1970.
Columbus Crew Stadium, opened in 1999, was the first major soccer specific stadium in the U.S..