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A Tangkhul Naga woman holds the hand of a child and walks past boys engaged in a friendly soccer match, with Nungshang village seen on the mountaintop, in Shangshak village, in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, Saturday, Jan. 30 2021. Most Naga villages are perched on mountaintops, originally built long ago to spot approaching enemies when the region was little more than a forest. But on nearly every mountaintop, there will be a flat rectangle to serve as a soccer field. (AP Photo/Yirmiyan Arthur)

AP PHOTOS: In India’s northeast, Nagas take pride in soccer

By YIRMIYAN ARTHUR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018 file photo, Sheikh Ahmad al Fahad al Sabah, president of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) delivers a speech during the ANOC general assembly in Tokyo. A sports court says on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 an election for an Asian woman soccer official to join the FIFA Council was improperly influenced by Olympic powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait. Sheikh Ahmad gave up his own FIFA Council seat in 2017 after being implicated in vote-buying by United States federal prosecutors. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, file)

Court rules on sheikh’s improper influence in FIFA seat vote

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Barcelona's Lionel Messi walks out of the pitch after being shown a red card during the Spanish Supercopa final soccer match against FC Barcelona at La Cartuja stadium in Seville, Spain, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Miguel Morenatti)

Plans for breakaway European Super League spark FIFA warning

By ROB HARRIS and GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

D.C. United has won two straight at home. (File photo by Adam Zielonka / The Washington Times)

Hernan Losada hired as new D.C. United coach

By Andy Kostka - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, May 21, 2020, Yves Jean-Bart, president of the Haitian Football Federation, wearing a protective face mask, arrives for a court hearing regarding allegations that he abused female athletes at the country's national training center, in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. In a verdict announced Friday Nov. 20, 2020, the FIFA ethics committee has found Jean-Bart guilty, banned him from the sport for life and fined him dollars 1.1 million, following accusations of systematic sexual abuse of female players. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, FILE)

FIFA details depths of sexual abuse case in Haitian soccer

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept.1, 2020 file photo, former FIFA President Sepp Blatter appears in front of the building of the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland, in Bern, Switzerland. Blatter and Michel Platini are facing a more serious charge of fraud in a five-year investigation of their past dealings at FIFA. Swiss federal prosecutors on Friday, Nov. 27 they intensified their investigation into FIFA’s $2 million payment to Platini in 2011 that Blatter approved. (Peter Schneider/Keystone via AP, file)

FIFA files criminal complaint against Blatter over museum

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

AP Sportlight

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Bayern's Robert Lewandowski, left, scores despite the challenge of Wolfsburg's Maxence Lacroix during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Matthias Balk/Pool photo via AP)

Robert Lewandowski wins FIFA award as best men’s player

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Vanderbilt's Sarah Fuller, right, kicks off as Ryan McCord (27) holds to start the second half of an NCAA college football game against Missouri Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Columbia, Mo. With the kick, Fuller became the first female to play in a Southeastern Conference football game. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson) **FILE**

Sarah Fuller sticking with Vanderbilt football after historic kick

By Teresa M. Walker - Associated Press

International pickup soccer for decades in Mississippi yard

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FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2020, file photo, Vanderbilt head coach Derek Mason looks on from the sideline during an NCAA college football game against Mississippi in Nashville, Tenn. Vanderbilt women's soccer goalkeeper Sarah Fuller has practiced with the football team, and coach Derek Mason says she's an option at kicker Saturday against Missouri. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)

Woman soccer player will dress, poised to play for Vandy

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In this image provided by Vanderbilt Athletics, Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller, right, slaps hands with a teammate during NCAA college football practice, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Fuller, a goalkeeper on the Commodores' women's soccer team, will don a football uniform on Vanderbilt's sideline and she is poised to become the first woman to play in a Power 5 game when the Commodores take on Missouri. (Vanderbilt Athletics via AP)

Sarah Fuller, Vanderbilt kicker, set to make college football history

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Marcio Pereira, 57, who likes to go by the nickname &quot;Pele&quot; juggles a soccer ball next to a monument adorned with a national Argentine flag bearing the No. 10, placed there by a mourner as a tribute to Diego Maradona, outside the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Maradona died on Wednesday at the age of 60 of a heart attack in a house outside Buenos Aires where he recovered from a brain operation. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazilians mourn death of Argentinian archrival Maradona

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 26, 2019 file photo, former soccer great Diego Maradona flashes victory signs to fans below at the Casa Rosada government house after meeting with Argentine President Alberto Fernandez in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Decades ago, Maradona held up his team's soccer trophy at this spot on the balcony after winning the World Cup in Mexico in 1986. The Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, died from a heart attack on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 60. (AP Photo/Marcos Brindicci, File)

If you were there, you will never forget Maradona in Mexico

By BARRY WILNER - Associated Press

Mourners embrace as they wait to see Diego Maradona lying in state outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. The Argentine soccer great who led his country to the 1986 World Cup died Wednesday at the age of 60. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Argentines bid a raucous farewell to Maradona amid clashes

By Almudena Calatrava and Debora Rey - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 file photo, Diego Armando Maradona, left, greets Pope Francis in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, ahead of an inter-religious match for peace. Diego Maradona has died. The Argentine soccer great was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity. He was 60. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Vatican: Pope prays for Maradona, fondly recalls meeting him

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FILE - In this June 29, 1986 file photo, Diego Maradona holds up his team's trophy after Argentina's 3-2 victory over West Germany at the World Cup final soccer match at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. The Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, died from a heart attack on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 60. (AP Photo/Carlo Fumagalli, File)

AP PHOTOS: Maradona a genius on the field, a character off

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In this March 1987 file photo, Pele, left, and Maradona hold &quot;Sports Oscar&quot; trophies in Milan, Rome. The Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, died from a heart attack on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 60. (AP Photo/File) **FILE**

Feuding no more, Pelé joins world in mourning Diego Maradona

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

In this March 1987 file photo, Pele, left, and Maradona hold &quot;Sports Oscar&quot; trophies in Milan, Rome. The Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, died from a heart attack on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 60. (AP Photo/File) **FILE**

Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona dies at 60

By Debora Rey - Associated Press

Diego Maradona blows a kiss to fans in Cannes, France, on May 20, 2008. Diego Maradona has died. The Argentine soccer great was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity. He was 60. (Gian Mattia D'Alberto/LaPresse via AP)

Remembering Diego Maradona: ‘The world has lost a legend’

By The Associated Press - Associated Press