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Colombia's James Rodriguez applauds to fans at the end of a Copa America Group B soccer match at the Morumbi stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Colombia plays Paraguay with mind already on Copa last 8

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Argentina's Lionel Messi gestures during a Copa America Group B soccer match against Paraguay at the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugenio Savio)

Argentina draws with Paraguay 1-1 in Copa America

By DEBORA REY - Associated Press

Argentina's Lionel Messi, second right, walks out of the pitch with teammates at the end of a Copa America Group B soccer match against Argentina at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Saturday, June 15, 2019. Colombia won 2-0. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Argentina again facing early elimination at Copa America

By DÉBORA REY - Associated Press

Technicians of Edenor electricity company stand under the rain as they work to fix a generator during a blackout in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, June 16, 2019. A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay on Sunday in what the Argentine president called an “unprecedented” failure in the countries’ power grid. (AP Photo/Tomas F. Cuesta)

Hunt for cause of massive South America power outage begins

By Luis Andres Henao and Paul Byrne - Associated Press

Qatar players celebrate their side's second goal against Paraguay, scored by Boualem Khoukhi, during a Copa America Group B soccer match at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, June 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Qatar surprises Paraguay with 2-2 draw in Copa America debut

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Maka indigenous leader-in-training Tsiweyenki, whose Spanish name is Gloria Elizeche, smiles with her sisters Cristina, center, and Estela as they cook in her backyard in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay, Monday, April 29, 2019. Following the death of Tsiweyenki's husband, who was chief of the Maka, his widow has been chosen as one of the first female leaders of an entire ethnic group. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

A woman takes leadership of Paraguay’s Maka people

By PEDRO SERVIN - Associated Press

Carolina Vera, 13, rides on a boat through a flooded street in the Villa Colorada neighborhood, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, April 5, 2019. More than 20,000 people in Paraguay have been evacuated after torrential rains caused extensive flooding. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Storms kill 3 in Brazil; 20,000 evacuated in Paraguay

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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, center, arrives at the National Congress to deliver a proposal to overhaul Brazil's pension system, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. Lawmakers received this week an anti-crime bill and a proposal to overhaul Brazil's pension system, the government's flagship reform. (AP Photo/Lucio Tavora)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro praises late Paraguay dictator Stroessner

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Paraguay seizes largest cocaine cargo in country’s north

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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2003 file photo, Lebanese citizen Assad Ahmad Barakat, who was then facing tax evasion charges, is escorted by police to a courthouse in Asuncion, Paraguay. On Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, federal police in Brazil arrested Barakat, a fugitive accused of belonging to Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and of being a key financier of terrorism. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

Brazil arrests man linked to Hezbollah on crimes in Paraguay

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

Arab League welcomes Paraguay embassy move out of Jerusalem

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Paraguay's new President Mario Abdo Benitez rides in an open top car with his wife Silvana Lopez, after his inauguration ceremony at &quot;Lopez Palace&quot; in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

New president takes over in Paraguay, vows to cut poverty

By PEDRO SERVIN - Associated Press

In this April 8, 2018 photo, Puning Luk, center, the mother of slain teenager Alejandro Villamayor, is embraced by a friend during a vigil to demand justice for her son in Asuncion, Paraguay. Rene Hofstetter was sentenced on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 to 12 years in prison for the murder of Villamayor, who found dead at a friend's house in June 2015 with a gunshot to the head. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Paraguay court sentences man in murder of US teenager

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United States' Bobby Wood (7) chases the ball with Paraguay's Cristian Riveros during the first half of an international friendly soccer match in Cary, N.C., Tuesday, March 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Weah debuts, Wood scores and US beats Paraguay 1-0

By JOEDY McCREARY - Associated Press

FILE - In these 2017 file photo, three former South American soccer officials, from left, Manuel Burga, of Peru; Jose Maria Marin, of Brazil; and Juan Angel Napout, of Paraguay, accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes, are shown outside federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The three are among the more than 40 soccer officials, businessmen and entities charged in a scandal that's shaken FIFA, soccer's governing body. (AP Photo/File)

The Latest: FIFA says it will seek restitution in bribe case

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Jose Maria Marin, of Brazil, arrives to federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. Closing arguments are set to take place in the New York trial of three former South American soccer officials charged in the bribery scandal engulfing the sport's governing body. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The Latest: Soccer bribery case deliberations set for Friday

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Jose Maria Marin leaves federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, Nov. 17, 2017. Marin, of Brazil, is one of three former South American soccer officials on trial in a U.S. case highlighting widespread corruption in the sport's governing body. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

World Cup bribes, death threats: Corrupt world of FIFA

By GRAHAM DUNBAR and ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Secret payments to soccer officials cloaked by car names

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

Argentina's Lionel Messi reacts during a World Cup qualifying soccer match against Peru at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. Argentina tied the match 0-0 and is almost eliminated from the upcoming World Cup in Russia. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Get out the calculators: Argentina may miss World Cup

By RICARDO ZUNIGA - Associated Press

A man walks past a fence with graffiti depicting Argentina's soccer legend Diego Maradona in the town of Volkhov, 130 km (80 miles) east of St.Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Brazil is in; Argentina still fighting for a World Cup spot

By STEPHEN WADE and RICARDO ZUNIGA - Associated Press