61.   As part of his promotional tour, he will coach soccer for children, tour an automotive plant, and meet with soccer officials.

62.   Asian soccer officials want a meeting with FIFA officials later this month to discuss the issue, he said.

63.   Blatter met Chinese soccer officials in Beijing on Sunday.

64.   Besides Abbas, another former national player and a soccer official have been convicted in the scandal in Singapore.

65.   Blatter also brushed aside suggestions that there was anything irregular in payments to soccer officials.

66.   Berti Vogts expressed anger Tuesday that German soccer federation officials offered to withdraw the team from the World Cup because of violence by German hooligans.

67.   Both groups had promised not to disrupt the tournament, but their presence and history of spectacular attacks made some soccer officials uneasy.

68.   Bosnian Serbs insisted on having their own separate association, while soccer officials in the federation were pushing for a joint organization.

69.   British newspapers and soccer officials called Thursday for England to withdraw as host of the tournament.

70.   Brunswijk would not say what it cost to build the complex, which he opened on Thursday in the presence of three government ministers and soccer officials.