Rules of the Game: Any of the other players may change places with the goalkeeper provided that the referee is informed before the change is made and the change is made during a stoppage in the match.
Rules of the Game: The center mark of a field is indicated at the midpoint of the halfway line. A circle with a radius of 9.15 m (10 yds) is marked around it.
Rules of the Game: The ball is in play at all other times it rebounds from either the referee or an assistant referee when they are on the field of play.
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 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany was a lion named Goleo VI. He had a talking soccer ball sidekick named Pille.
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