Goalkeeper is the only position to be explicitly part of the rules of the game since they were codified in the 19th century.
FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) was founded in Paris on May 21, 1904.
The most prolific goal-scorer in the North American Soccer League was Italian Giorgio Chinaglia of the New York Cosmos: 242 goals in 254 games.
In the first US Open Cup Final, played in 1914, Brooklyn Field Club defeated Brooklyn Celtic, 2-1.
The United States played its first-ever official international soccer match on August 20, 1916 against Sweden in Stockholm.