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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 3, 2020 file photo, FIFA President Gianni Infantino addresses a meeting of European soccer leaders at the congress of the UEFA governing body in Amsterdam's Beurs van Berlage, Netherlands. Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber has offered to resign in the latest fallout from meetings he had with FIFA president Gianni Infantino during a sprawling investigation into soccer corruption. Lauber offered his resignation to the parliamentary judicial commission ahead of the publication of a federal court ruling in his appeal against being disciplined in March for misconduct. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file)

FIFA to AP: Infantino should remain president during probe

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 9, 2019 file photo, FIFA president Gianni Infantino speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Soccer governing body FIFA says its $1.5 billion coronavirus relief plan to revive the sport and help national associations stay afloat comes with “strict compliance and audit requirements.” “This relief plan is a great example of football’s solidarity and commitment in such unprecedented times,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

Criminal case opened against FIFA president Gianni Infantino

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 9, 2019 file photo, FIFA president Gianni Infantino speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Soccer governing body FIFA says its $1.5 billion coronavirus relief plan to revive the sport and help national associations stay afloat comes with “strict compliance and audit requirements.” “This relief plan is a great example of football’s solidarity and commitment in such unprecedented times,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

FIFA eyes ‘strict compliance’ for virus relief plan

Associated Press

In this Friday, May 10, 2019 FILE photo, Swiss Federal Attorney Michael Lauber watches during a media conference at the Media Centre of the Federal Parliament in Bern, Switzerland. According to media reports, Lauber offered his resignation on 24 July 2020 amid impeachment proceedings over his handling of the FIFA corruption probe. (Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via AP)

Swiss attorney general offers to resign in FIFA case fallout

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2017, file photo, Juan Ángel Napout, of Paraguay, arrives at federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, U.S. District Judge Pamela K. Chen delayed deciding on a request for compassionate release from prison by Napout, the former head of South American soccer, for two weeks. Napout is being held at a federal facility in Miami where COVID-19 infections are on the rise. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Ex-South American soccer head stays in prison with virus

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

Former Afghan soccer federation president’s life ban upheld

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

A worker wearing protective gear disinfects the pitch as a precaution against the coronavirus during the half break of the Rio de Janeiro soccer league final match between Flamengo and Fluminense at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. The match is being played without spectators to curb the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

South American World Cup qualifiers rescheduled for October

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

FILE - This Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 file photo shows the FIFA Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. The FIFA ethics committee has 13 formal investigations ongoing, plus preliminary enquiries in 62 more cases, the soccer body's lawyers said Tuesday June 23, 2020, during a two-day online review. (Walter Bieri/Keystone via AP, File)

Banned for life by FIFA, soccer officials line up to appeal

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, June 24, 2019, Costa Rica forward Joel Campbell in action against Haiti during a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match, in Harrison, New Jersey, USA. English club Arsenal has been fined 40,000 Swiss francs by FIFA on Friday July 3, 2020, and warned about its conduct regarding player transfers after the club used variable sell-on clauses that were found to give it influence over other clubs, concerning the 2018 departure of Joel Campbell to Italian side Frosinone Calcio.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez, FILE)

FIFA fines Arsenal over sell-on clauses for player transfers

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino addresses a meeting of European soccer leaders at the congress of the UEFA governing body in Amsterdam's Beurs van Berlage, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Prosecutor to probe attorney general-FIFA president meetings

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2015 file photo, FIFA's Markus Kattner, listens during a conference in Moscow. FIFA banned its former finance director Markus Kattner for 10 years on Tuesday, June 30, 2020 in a case of top management self-dealing salary raises and bonuses totalling tens of millions of dollars. FIFA says its ethics committee judges found charges proven against Kattner of conflicts of interest and abuse of position. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, file)

FIFA bans former finance director Kattner for 10 years

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 11, 2016, file photo, former FIFA vice president Alfredo Hawit leaves federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Hawit, the former president of soccer’s governing body for North and Central American and the Caribbean, has been sentenced to time served for his role in accepting $1.66 million in bribes in the FIFA scandals and will return to Honduras after 4 1/2 years in the U.S. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Ex-CONCACAF president Alfredo Hawit sentenced to time served

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, April 29, 2016 file photo, UEFA President Michel Platini leaves the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, surrounded by media after a hearing in Lausanne, Switzerland. Former UEFA president Michel Platini is formally under investigation in Switzerland for a $2 million payment he got from FIFA in 2011. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Michel Platini now a formal suspect in Swiss case

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Australia, New Zealand to co-host 2023 Women’s World Cup

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

CONCACAF to revise World Cup qualifying format

Associated Press

Qualifying congestion affects draw plans for 2022 World Cup

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - This Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 file photo shows the FIFA Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. The FIFA ethics committee has 13 formal investigations ongoing, plus preliminary enquiries in 62 more cases, the soccer body's lawyers said Tuesday June 23, 2020, during a two-day online review. (Walter Bieri/Keystone via AP, File)

FIFA has 13 ongoing investigations, plus 62 other cases

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 25, 2019, file photo, Japan players embrace ahead of the Women's World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the Netherlands and Japan at Roazhon Park, in Rennes, France. The Japan Football Association is expected to pull out of bidding for the 2023 Women’s World Cup, according to a report by Japanese news agency Kyodo on Monday, June 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Australia-NZ favored for 2023 Women’s WCup after Japan quits

By GRAHAM DUNBAR and ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2017, file photo, Juan Angel Napout, of Paraguay, arrives to federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The criminal convictions of former soccer officials Juan Ángel Napout and José Maria Marin have been upheld in a 3-0 decision by a U.S. federal appeals court. “Napout and Marin argue principally that their convictions rest upon impermissible extraterritorial applications of the honest services wire fraud statute,” the panel wrote in a decision announced Monday, June 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Convictions of FIFA officials upheld by US appeals court

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, June 14, 2020, after stepping off Marine One as he returns from his golf club in New Jersey. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

FIFA urges ‘tolerance’ after Trump’s anthem kneeling rebuke

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press