31.   The Olympic gold medal is the only major soccer prize Brazil has never won.

32.   The national league representatives, along with UEFA, will be looking at ways to keep the major soccer clubs from negotiating their own television contracts.

33.   The tournament features champions and runners-up from major professional soccer leagues in North and Central America and the Caribbean.

34.   The United States has the only major soccer league on the planet that will keep playing right through the World Cup.

35.   The victory for Germany, the defending champion, knocked out the second of the two co-hosts of the first major soccer tournament to be hosted by two countries.

36.   Vogts rejected insinuations that Germany had thrown its weight as a major soccer nation behind its request to UEFA.

37.   Washington D.C. United is champion of the inaugural U.S. major soccer league.

38.   Canada begins its perennial bid to qualify for a major international soccer tournament here Friday hoping for better luck than in recent years.