Rules of the Game: All field marking lines should not be more than 12 cm (5 inches) wide.
FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) was founded in Paris on May 21, 1904.
The mascot for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France was a cockerel (or rooster) named Footix.
The oldest soccer club in the world is England's Sheffield FC, founded in 1857.
The first appearance of organized women's soccer in the US may have been in 1922, when a team sponsored by English company Dick, Kerr toured the country -and beat several top men's teams.