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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives to meet French National Women's Soccer team during a visit at France's training camp in Clairefontaine, south of Paris, France, Tuesday, June 4 2019. The French women soccer team is preparing for the FIFA Women's World Cup that will start in France next Friday. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

President Macron angers UEFA over Champions League outburst

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino, right, and FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura arrive for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

The Latest: Brazil soccer chief backs Neymar in rape case

Associated Press

World Cup 2022

By Tim Constantine

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2016, file photo, then China's head coach Marcello Lippi gestures during the Group A World Cup 2018 Asian qualifier soccer match against Qatar, in Kunming in southwestern China's Yunnan province. Lippi is set to return for a second stint in charge of China's national team as the country targets a place at the 2022 World Cup, the Chinese Football Association announced Friday, May 24, 2019. (Color China Photo via AP, File)

The Latest: FIFA to offer different Champions League reforms

Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 file photo, newly elected FIFA president Gianni Infantino of Switzerland as he raises an arm during a press conference after the second election round during the extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland. FIFA President Gianni Infantino this week gets a fresh four-year term to lead FIFA and world soccer in relative calm after years of turmoil. The 49-year-old Swiss-Italian lawyer’s rise still rankles with those who thought the FIFA presidency was their destiny. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Out of turmoil, Infantino set to lead FIFA into calmer era

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Sierra Leone soccer head acquitted of corruption charges

Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino smiles during an awarding ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 23, 2019. Putin awarded FIFA President Gianni Infantino with the Order of Friendship and praised the World Cup that Russia hosted last year as the best ever. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP)

FIFA restoring ‘corruption’ to ethics code after criticism

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Megan Rapinoe, a member of the United States women's national soccer team, speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York, Friday, May 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Rapinoe kicks FIFA, says women’s soccer not treated equally

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

People watch the inauguration ceremony, Thursday, May 16, 2019, of the Al Wakrah stadium, which is the first stadium has been built from the scratch for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

FIFA keeps 32 teams for 2022 World Cup, scrapping expansion

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FIFA fines Anderlecht for breaking youth transfer rules

Associated Press

The Women's soccer World Cup trophy is on display during its presentation in a Paris school, Tuesday, May 14, 2019. When FIFA released its global strategy for women’s soccer last year, it was met by some skepticism. But soccer’s governing body is making some strides in implementing the long-range plan, against a backdrop of this summer’s World Cup in France. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Bareman: FIFA takes positive steps in women’s game strategy

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

Host France atop Group A with 2 other top-15 ranked teams

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

Sam Kerr and the Aussies top Group C, which includes Brazil

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

Canada tops Group E with Sinclair close to a milestone

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Monday, Sept. 14, 2015 file photo of Switzerland's Attorney General Michael Lauber, left and US Attorney General and Loretta Lynch, attend a news conference on soccer related criminal proceedings, in Zurich, Switzerland. Switzerland’s attorney general is the subject of a disciplinary case over his handling of a four-year investigation of FIFA that involves 25 criminal proceedings of alleged financial wrongdoing. The federal office overseeing the work of chief prosecutor Michael Lauber says it is examining possible violations of his duties in the FIFA investigation. (Anthony Anex/Keystone, File via AP, File)

Swiss attorney general investigated over handling FIFA case

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Chelsea's Eden Hazard waves to fans at the end of the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Watford at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Sunday, May 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

FIFA rejects Chelsea appeal against 1-year transfer ban

Associated Press

FIFA to hold human rights talks on 2022 World Cup expansion

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

MLS clubs to seek training compensation, solidarity payments

By BY ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2017 file photo, Jose Maria Marin leaves federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York. FIFA ethics judges have on Monday, April 15, 2019 banned Brazilian soccer official Jose Maria Marin for life, 16 months after he was convicted of corruption charges in a United States federal court. Marin led Brazil’s organizing committee for the 2014 World Cup before being arrested in Zurich the next year. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

FIFA bans convicted Brazilian soccer official Marin for life

Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks during the 29th AFC Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, April 6, 2019. The Asian Football Confederation holds its presidential election on Saturday. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Infantino holds Kuwait talks on staging 2022 World Cup games

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press