The Football Association (FA) had feared serious action from European soccer officials if there was any repeat of the violent scenes which marred England's game with Turkey in April.

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Beckham is targeting a return to action in Major League Soccer (MLS) with the Galaxy, having helped them to the finals of last year's playoffs.

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Both sides have agreed to coordinate discovery "to the extent practicable" with discovery for YouTube's defense against a separate class-action copyright infringement suit being led by England's top soccer division, the Premier League.

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The fledgling league is hoping to strike a chord with casual soccer fans by rescuing some of its teams from monstrous football stadiums--mausoleums to a soccer club playing to less than half capacity much of the time--and into soccer-only venues that bring fans closer to the action.

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