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Chelsea's Christian Pulisic reaches for the ball during the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Real Madrid and Chelsea at the Alfredo di Stefano stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

NBC’s White rides rollercoaster of crazy Premier League week

By JOE REEDY - Associated Press

Vancouver Whitecaps head coach Marc Dos Santos calls out instructions during the first half of an MLS soccer match against Toronto FC, Saturday, April 24, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Canadian MLS teams try to make best of relocation

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

Referee Sapir Berman observes players during an Israeli Premier League soccer match between Hapoel Haifa and Beitar Jerusalem in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Monday, May 3, 2021. Israeli soccer's first transgender soccer referee took the field Monday for the first time since coming out publicly as a woman last week. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel’s first transgender soccer ref takes field as woman

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LA Galaxy forward Javier Hernandez (14) reacts after scoring a goal during the second half of an MLS soccer match against Inter Miami, Sunday, April 18, 2021, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Chicharito thrilled with hot start, youth soccer initiative

By GREG BEACHAM - Associated Press

Israeli soccer referee Sapir Berman gives a press conference in Ramat Gan, Israel, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Berman has come out as transgender and is living — and enforcing the rules of the game — as a woman. Berman announced Tuesday that she has received the support of her family, the local referees’ union and Israeli and international soccer officials. She said even players and fans have begun to address her as a woman, even if they don’t always like her calls. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israeli soccer referee comes out as transgender woman

By LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, Real Madrid President Florentino Perez gives a thumbs up as he arrives for the UEFA Champions League draw at the Grimaldi Forum, in Monaco. Perez says the Super League is being created now to save soccer amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the idea of the new elite league has existed way before the pandemic ever hit and he has been behind it from the start. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

Madrid president says Super League clubs ‘can’t leave’ plan

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, March 7, 2021 file photo, Joan Laporta celebrates his victory after elections at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona president Joan Laporta maintained his support for the Super League on Thursday April 22, 2021, despite the quick exit of 10 of the 12 founding clubs in the breakaway competition. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort, File)

Barcelona maintains support of Super League despite backlash

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

A banner is seen outside Liverpool's Anfield Stadium protesting the formation of the European Super League, Liverpool, England, Monday, April 19, 2021. Players at the 12 clubs setting up their own Super League could be banned from this year's European Championship and next year's World Cup, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin said Monday. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

UEFA president urges Super League owners to reverse decision

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, Real Madrid President Florentino Perez gives a thumbs up as he arrives for the UEFA Champions League draw at the Grimaldi Forum, in Monaco. Perez says the Super League is being created now to save soccer amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the idea of the new elite league has existed way before the pandemic ever hit and he has been behind it from the start. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

Super League a ‘longtime dream’ for Madrid president Pérez

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

Column: Only thing ‘Super’ about new league is the ca$h

By JIM LITKE - Associated Press

A man and a young boy walk past a Real Madrid poster of the team celebrating in a merchandising shop in Madrid, Spain, Monday, April 19, 2021. UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says players at the 12 clubs setting up their own Super League could be banned from this year's European Championship and next year's World Cup. Ceferin spoke after a UEFA executive committee meeting held only hours of the English, Italian and Spanish clubs announced the project that threatens to split European soccer. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Pérez: Super League being created to ‘save soccer’

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

Fans burn a Liverpool replica shirt outside Elland Road, as a protest against Liverpool's decision to be included amongst the clubs attempting to form a new European Super League, in Leeds, England, Monday, April 19, 2021. Reaction to the proposals from 12 clubs to rip up European soccer by forming a breakaway Super League has ranged from anger and condemnation to humor and sarcasm. (Zac Goodwin/PA via AP)

Winners and losers in Super League plan for European soccer

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2021, file photo, dignitaries gather for a ribbon-cutting at Austin FC's new stadium under construction which has been named Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas. Austin FC is MLS's newest expansion team and had to build the $260-million facility and a team roster amid the global pandemic. Austin FC opens the 2021 season Saturday, April 17, 2021, at Los Angeles FC. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

MLS 2021: Austin FC built in pandemic and ready to play

By JIM VERTUNO - Associated Press

Audi Field, the new stadium in Washington, D.C. for Major League Soccer club D.C. United, was formally unveiled in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, July 9, 2018. (Photo by Adam Zielonka / The Washington Times) **FILE**

D.C. United hires Lucy Rushton as second female general manager in MLS history

By Andy Kostka - The Washington Times

Randolph men’s soccer coach aims to imbue passion into game

By EMILY BROWN and The News & Advance - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, showing the FIFA Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. Laura McAllister, a former international soccer player for Wales and official in its national federation, is a candidate for election to join FIFA’s ruling committee and has written a manifesto for European voters who will choose their female delegate to the FIFA Council on April 20, 2021. (Walter Bieri/Keystone File via AP)

McAllister writes manifesto in bid for seat on FIFA Council

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Bayern's Lina Magull, background, and Rosengard's Caroline Seger challenge for the ball during the women's quarterfinal Champions League first leg soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and FC Rosengard in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

European women’s soccer vision sees place for indie clubs

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Assistant referee Kathryn Nesbitt runs the sideline as she watches play between Bermuda and Canada during the first half of a World Cup 2022 Group B qualifying soccer match, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. Nesbitt, a 32-year-old from Philadelphia, had a breakthrough moment when she became the first woman to work as an on-field official for a World Cup qualifier in North and Central America and the Caribbean. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Barrier falls: Woman officiate men’s World Cup qualifiers

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

Brazilian referee Igor Benevenuto works during the Brazilian championship soccer game between Palmeiras and Bahia in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nov.8, 2019. When the coronavirus pandemic forced Brazilian soccer to take a break, Benevenuto took one of the few jobs that were still in high demand in his countryside city of Sete Lagoas, as a nurse at a public hospital filled with COVID-19 patients. (Daniel Vorley/AGIF via AP)

Working as COVID nurse changes Brazilian referee’s outlook

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during an event to mark Equal Pay Day in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden cheers on U.S. Women’s National Team to mark Equal Pay Day

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times