Soccer

MIAMI (CP-AP) — Canada will face World Cup champion Argentina, Peru and Chile at next summer's Copa America if it gets past Trinidad and Tobago in a March playoff.

SAO PAULO (AP) — The same stadium where Pelé’s funeral took place earlier this year was invaded by angry fans on Thursday, the day after Santos was relegated for the first time in the Brazilian league.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi and Inter Miami are headed to Hong Kong. The club revealed plans Thursday for a Feb. 4 match there on its first international tour, part of its preseason before the 2024 Major League Soccer campaign.

LONDON (AP) — West Ham came back to secure a 2-1 win at Tottenham in the Premier League on Thursday and extend Spurs' winless run to five games.

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Everton climbed out of the relegation zone on Thursday with a 3-0 win over Newcastle in the Premier League.

A 10-point deduction for breaching the Premier League's financial rules had plunged Everton into the relegation zone and threatened to end its 70-year stay in England's top division.

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Rio de Janeiro state court removed the president of the Brazilian soccer confederation from office on Thursday because of irregularities in the proceedings that led to his election last year.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez, a former teammate of Lionel Messi at Barcelona, won the golden ball Thursday as the player of the season in the Brazilian league.

CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation's new training center will be built in Fayetteville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta about a 30-mile drive from downtown Atlanta.

MADRID (AP) — Cadiz lost 2-1 to fourth-division club Arandina on Thursday, becoming the second topflight team in Spain eliminated in the second round of the Copa del Rey.