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Speaker 1: The FIFA Council has pledged a recommendation to the International

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Speaker 1: Olympic Committee to expand its women's Olympic soccer competition to

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Speaker 1: sixteen teams. The attorney currently has twelve teams, four fewer

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Speaker 1: than the men. The women's tournament started in ninety six

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Speaker 1: with eight teams, grew to ten and four and then

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Speaker 1: twelve in eight. It's FIFA's hope that the switch to

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Speaker 1: sixteen teams will be made in time for the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty eight Olympics in LA. For more women's sports stories,

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