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Flamengo's Gabriel Barbosa celebrates with Flamengo fans end of the Club World Cup semifinal soccer match between Flamengo and Al Hilal at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar).

Influx of club fans a ‘22 World Cup testing ground for Qatar

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

A bus carrying the Barcelona players leaves the Camp Nou stadium, ahead of a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Barcelona and Real Madrid in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. Thousands of Catalan separatists are planning to protest around and inside Barcelona's Camp Nou Stadium during Wednesday's match against fierce rival Real Madrid. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)

Police, protesters clash outside Barcelona-Real Madrid game

By JOSEPH WILSON and BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber, left, and Charlotte MLS team owner David Tepper announce that Major League Soccer will be coming to Charlotte in 2021 at an event in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond

Charlotte lands Major League Soccer expansion team

By STEVE REED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2017, file photo, United States defender Julie Ertz (8) celebrates after scoring a goal against New Zealand during the first half of an international friendly soccer match in Commerce City, Colo. Ertz has been named the U.S. Soccer women's Player of the Year on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019, for the second time. Ertz also won the award in 2017 and she won the federation's Young Player of the Year honors in 2012. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)

Julie Ertz named US Soccer women’s player of the year

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017, Denmark's Nadia Nadim during the Women's Euro 2017 final soccer match against Netherlands in Enschede, the Netherlands. Two decades after fleeing Afghanistan, the Paris Saint-Germain and Denmark striker Nadia Nadim is ready to go home, she tells The Associated Press Wednesday Dec. 4, 2019, that she will take a chance with her safety because the risks are worth it to inspire girls to follow her onto the soccer field. (AP Photo/Patrick Post, FILE)

Nadim plans return to Afghanistan to inspire girls in soccer

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Yale women’s soccer coach leaves amid report of misconduct

Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, Finland's coach Markku Kanerva during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Greece and Finland at Olympic stadium in Athens. Finland could seal a place in the finals of next year’s European Championship for the first time in its history on upcoming Friday Nov. 15, 2019, if they beat Liechtenstein at home. It’s a day many in this Nordic country thought would never arrive after so many past disappointments but Finland’s ex-school teacher coach Markku Kanerva could be changing the mentality of a nation. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, FILE)

‘It will go crazy’: Finland close to 1st major soccer finals

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

United States forward Tobin Heath, left, passes the ball in front of Sweden defender Hanna Glas during the first half of a women's international friendly soccer match in Columbus, Ohio, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)

Judge grants USWNT class status in discrimination lawsuit

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

Villarreal to showcase its flair _ and ceramics _ in US

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 9, 2019 file photo, Australia's Ellie Carpenter, left, chases Italy's Barbara Bonansea during a Women's World Cup Group C soccer match between Australia and Italy at the Stade du Hainaut in Valenciennes, France. Italy won 2-0. Italy’s surprise run to the quarterfinals of the Women’s World Cup this year went a long way toward changing misconceptions about the female game in a country where the most popular sport is dominated by men. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, file)

Italy’s female soccer players aim to change law limiting pay

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

Players to go on strike in Spanish women’s soccer league

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 18, 2018, file photo, LA Galaxy's Servando Carrasco, left, and U.S. women's national soccer team player Alex Morgan arrive at the ESPY Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The couple are expecting their first child, according to an announcement Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, on social media. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Alex Morgan, Servando Carrasco expecting baby girl in 2020

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, photo shows the graded dirt surface where sod will be placed in November inside what will be the stadium for David Beckham’s Inter Miami MLS soccer team that opens its inaugural season in 2020 at the site of the former Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Tim Reynolds)

Beckham’s stadium complex for Inter Miami taking shape

By TIM REYNOLDS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2019, file image taken with a slow shutter speed a soccer player runs for the ball during the Euro 2020 group A qualifying soccer match in Prague, Czech Republic. A study, from the University of Glasgow and reported Monday, Oct. 21, in New England Journal of Medicine, of former professional soccer players in Scotland found that they were less likely to die of common causes such as heart disease and cancer compared with the general population but more likely to die from dementia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Study raises fresh dementia concerns from playing pro soccer

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Italy women’s team awarded for ‘emancipating’ female game

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, photo tennis great and founder of the Women's Sports Foundation Billie Jean King, left, and soccer star Megan Rapinoe pose for photos on the red carpet of the Women's Sports Foundation's 40th annual Salute to Women in Sports in New York. Rapinoe, who was honored at the gala, won Sportswoman of the Year in the team category. She led the U.S. women's soccer team to victory at the World Cup in France and earned the FIFA Player of the Year award. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Soccer star Rapinoe, boxer Shields win sportswomen of year

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, from left, Eritrean under-20 soccer players Hermon Fessehaye Yohannes, Simon Asmelash Mekonen, Hanibal Girmay Tekle, and Mewael Tesfai Yosief talk together in a house where they are staying in Uganda. Four young players with Eritrea's national under-20 soccer team have defected during a tournament in Uganda, the latest players to leave one of the world's most tightly controlled regimes. (AP Photo)

Eritrean soccer players who defected say they live in fear

By JUSTIN LYNCH - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 21, 2019 file photo, Djurgardens player Kevin Walker controls the ball during the soccer match between BK Hacken and Djurgardens IF at Bravida Arena, Goteborg. Swedish soccer player Kevin Walker was thrust into the national consciousness when he won the country’s biggest reality talent show in 2013 but he chose to stay in soccer rather than chase more music fame. (Nils Petter Nilsson/TT via AP, File)

AP Interview: Pop star close to being Swedish soccer champ

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

Riot police chase protesters near a demonstration in Hong Kong, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Tens of thousands of masked protesters marched defiantly in the city center Sunday, but the peaceful rallies quickly degenerated into chaos at several locations as hard-liners again lobbed gasoline bombs, started fires and trashed subway stations and China-linked banks and shops.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

FIFA fines Hong Kong soccer body for China anthem protest

Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, April 29, 2016 file photo, UEFA President Michel Platini leaves the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, after a hearing in Lausanne, Switzerland. Michel Platini is free to work in soccer again on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019 morning after his four-year ban by FIFA expires overnight. The former UEFA president told The Associated Press on Monday unsure he is where and when he will return. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, file)

Platini plans comeback, legal fight after 4-year FIFA ban

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press