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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

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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

FIFA President Gianni Infantino gives a thumbs up after speaking to the press at the swearing-in ceremony of Rogerio Caboclo as president of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The biggest challenges for Caboclo will be ending Brazil's World Cup title drought, dating back to 2002, improving the country's youth teams and moving the national governing body away from scandal. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Swiss special counsel clears friend of FIFA head Infantino

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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2019, file photo, FIFA President Gianni Infantino holds the official ball of the upcoming Women’s Soccer World Championship as he poses for photographers during a press conference at the end of an executive committee meeting in Rome. FIFA's financial results underscore the glaring disparity between men and women’s soccer. “We need to try to find what is the most balanced way and I think we made a step and there will be many more steps going ahead,” Infantino said in October before his ruling council approved the 2019 Women’s World Cup prize scale. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

The Latest: Europe refusing to play in bigger Club World Cup

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FIFA President Gianni Infantino talks during a press conference after the FIFA Council Meeting, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Miami. The council approved working with Qatar to explore expanding the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams by adding at least one more country in the Persian Gulf to host matches. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

FIFA push to spread 2022 Qatar World Cup faces resistance

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino holds the official ball of the upcoming Women's Soccer World Championship as he poses for photographers during a press conference at the end of an executive committee meeting in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

APNewsBreak: FIFA wants 24-team Club World Cup in 2021

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino holds the official ball of the upcoming Women's Soccer World Championship as he poses for photographers during a press conference at the end of an executive committee meeting in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

AP Source: FIFA explores Kuwait, Oman as 2022 WCup co-hosts

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino holds the official ball of the upcoming Women's Soccer World Championship as he poses for photographers during a press conference at the end of an executive committee meeting in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Infantino says joint Korean Women’s World Cup bid possible

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino holds the official ball of the upcoming Women's Soccer World Championship as he poses for photographers during a press conference at the end of an executive committee meeting in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Infantino: Male players can learn from better behaved women

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino meets the journalists during a press conference at the end of an executive committee meeting in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Infantino looks toward June deadline for expanding ‘22 WCup

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino smiles prior the AFC Asian Cup final match between Japan and Qatar in Zayed Sport City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

FIFA president Infantino is only candidate for election

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017 file photo, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin speaks during the press conference after the meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee at the UEFA headquarters, in Nyon, Switzerland. UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin will get a new four-year term as the leader of European soccer’s governing body on Thursday Feb. 7, 2019, as the only candidate. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Clubs, FIFA to test UEFA leader Ceferin in new 4-year term

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino sits in a television studio during an interview at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Southern African bloc backs Infantino for FIFA re-election

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FIFA President Gianni Infantino, gestures before the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup final soccer match between Mexico and Spain in Montevideo, Uruguay, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

FIFA leader Infantino wins SE Asia support for re-election

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FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks during a press conference at the G20 Leader's Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

FIFA won’t be bound by politics over sharing Qatar World Cup

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Pablo Perez of Argentina's Boca Juniors, walks on the pitch of the Antonio Vespucio Liberti stadium wearing an eye patch, after the final soccer match of the Copa Libertadores was rescheduled for Sunday, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. The match was rescheduled after the bus carrying the Boca Juniors players was attacked by River Plate fans, injuring several players including Perez. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

River Plate rejects moving Copa Libertadores final to Madrid

By LUIS HENAO and ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FIFA’s Infantino gets election support from CONMEBOL

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FIFA boss says he doesn’t know why prosecutor was suspended

By STEVEN WINE - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 12, 2018 file photo, FIFA President Gianni Infantino participates in the annual conference of the South American Football Confederation, CONMEBOL, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Infantino has asked the emir of Qatar to consider co-hosting the next World Cup with several nations that are attempting to isolate the tiny desert country in a bitter diplomatic dispute. Qatar has just eight stadiums to host 64 games over an already-congested 28-day window in 2022. Expanding the field to 48 teams would mean 80 games, requiring more stadiums. Infantino says using venues in Saudi Arabia and around the Persian Gulf “would probably be a nice message.” (AP Photo/Martin Ruggiero, File)

Infantino wants ‘corruption’ term back on FIFA ethics code

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 12, 2018 file photo, FIFA President Gianni Infantino participates in the annual conference of the South American Football Confederation, CONMEBOL, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Infantino has asked the emir of Qatar to consider co-hosting the next World Cup with several nations that are attempting to isolate the tiny desert country in a bitter diplomatic dispute. Qatar has just eight stadiums to host 64 games over an already-congested 28-day window in 2022. Expanding the field to 48 teams would mean 80 games, requiring more stadiums. Infantino says using venues in Saudi Arabia and around the Persian Gulf “would probably be a nice message.” (AP Photo/Martin Ruggiero, File)

FIFA’s 2022 World Cup expansion at risk from 28-day limit

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press