Rules of the Game: Within each penalty area, a penalty mark is made 12 yards (11 m) from the midpoint between the goalposts and equidistant to them. An arc of a circle with a radius of 10 yards (9.15 m) from each penalty mark is drawn outside the penalty
Goalkeeper is the only position to be explicitly part of the rules of the game since they were codified in the 19th century.
The mascot for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France was a cockerel (or rooster) named Footix.
The U.S. Women's National Team went 51 games without a loss between 2004 and 2007.
The United States played its first-ever official international soccer match on August 20, 1916 against Sweden in Stockholm.