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FIFA President Gianni Infantino, arrives at the Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. Infantino arrived in Pyongyang on the day that North Korean and South Korean teams are set to play a World Cup qualifier match in the North’s capital. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

FIFA inviting some non-champions to enlarged Club World Cup

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino, arrives at the Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. Infantino arrived in Pyongyang on the day that North Korean and South Korean teams are set to play a World Cup qualifier match in the North’s capital. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

China confirmed as 2021 Club WCup host, slots to be settled

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

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 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

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018 file photo, men work on the construction site of the Ras Abu Aboud stadium, backdropped by the city skyline in Doha, Qatar. A FIFA feasibility study concluded the 2022 World Cup can expand to 48 teams by using at least one of Qatar's neighbors as an additional host, and found there is a low legal risk to changing the format and an additional $400 million in revenue could be generatedThe Associated Press obtained a copy of the 81-page report on Monday, March 11, 2019 that assesses the political, logistical and legal issues surrounding adding 16 teams _ a significant change to the format more than eight years after Qatar won the hosting rights. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

APNewsBreak: FIFA study backs 48-team ‘22 WC, Qatar sharing

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, FIFA President Gianni Infantino arrives for the ceremony of the Best FIFA Football Awards at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Infantino hoped to secure an agreement on Friday Oct. 26, 2018, from his council on the concept of revamping the Club World Cup and establishing a worldwide Nations League.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein, FILE)

The Latest: Copa America moves to even years from 2020

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FILE - In this Monday, June 11, 2018 file photo, FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks with participants of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) meeting in Moscow, Russia. A person with knowledge of the plans tells The Associated Press FIFA President Gianni Infantino is doubling down on his Club World Cup plans with a proposal for an annual tournament despite European soccer’s resistance to any competition that challenges the supremacy of the Champions League.(AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

Saudi government funds won’t pay for new FIFA events

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

African soccer to vote for new FIFA Council member

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday Jan. 18, 2013 file photo, South African sports administrator Danny Jordaan, speaks during the 2010 FIFA World Cup Legacy Trust media conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Danny Jordaan, a South African official linked to the alleged bribery of corrupt FIFA executives, has been cleared in an ethics check to stand for the Sept. 30, 2018 election to the world soccer body's ruling council. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, file)

Jordaan cleared for FIFA Council despite bribery link

By ANDREW JACKSON ORYADA and GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 1, 2014, file photo, fans cheer for the United States against Belgium during a Brazil 2014 World Cup viewing party at Soldier Field in Chicago. Chicago, the home of the U.S. Soccer Federation, has dropped out of the North American bid for the 2026 World Cup. Organizers were to announce their list of bidding cities Thursday, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Stacy Thacker, File)

Morocco struggles to stay in 2026 cup contest vs Americans

By GRAHAM DUNBAR and ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 29, 2015 file photo, World Cup organizing committee chief executive Alexei Sorokin attends a press conference on World Cup 2018 issues in Moscow, Russia. Russia has regained its place on the FIFA Council, six months after Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko was blocked from re-election. UEFA member federations on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017 elected Alexei Sorokin, CEO of the 2018 World Cup organizing committee, by acclamation as one of their delegates to FIFA's strategy-setting committee. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Russia regains FIFA Council seat after Mutko’s ouster

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE- In this Monday, Oct. 26, 2015 file photo, Asian Olympic leader Kuwaiti Sheik Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the Washington Hilton, in Washington. Ahmad denies claims in a U.S. federal court that he bribed FIFA voters.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

FIFA official Sheikh Ahmad resigning amid bribery claims

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday Aug. 25, 2016 file photo, former FIFA President Sepp Blatter arrives at the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, for his appeal on a six-year ban on football related activities in Lausanne, Switzerland. Details are revealed in a 68-page verdict newly published in March 2017, written by Court of Arbitration for Sport judges to explain why they dismissed Blatter’s appeal against a six-year ban in December. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP, File)

FIFA to review pay, pension deals for council members

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Feb. 16 2010 file photo, chief organizer of the 2010 World Cup Soccer tournament in South Africa, Danny Jordaan, speaks with the Associated Press in Johannesburg. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) said Tuesday March 7, 2017, that Jordaan has been withdrawn from the election for a place on the FIFA Council by his national association. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, FILE)

South Africa’s Jordaan out of FIFA Council election

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Iran official opts out of Asian election for FIFA position

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China aiming for increased influence on FIFA

By JOHN DUERDEN - Associated Press