Missing out on Lionel Messi hasn't slowed Saudi Arabia's ambitious recruitment drive as the oil-rich kingdom tries to establish itself as a viable destination for the world's top players.

Having already lured two of the sport's biggest stars in Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, the Saudis, amid allegations of sportswashing, are targeting a host of other high-profile players from Europe's best leagues.

Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos is "not done yet" after agreeing to a one-year contract extension with the Spanish club on Wednesday.

The 33-year-old Kroos will begin his 10th season with the team after both sides agreed to extend his deal through the 2023-24 campaign.

Perhaps the only positive Germany can draw from its national football team's deepening crisis is that the 2024 European Championship is still a year away.

Even if few believe it anymore, Germany coach Hansi Flick insists that is enough time to turn things around before hosting the tournament.

N'Golo Kante won pretty much everything in European soccer. Now he's trying his luck in the lucrative Saudi league, where he'll have another France superstar for company.

Cristiano Ronaldo became the first men's player to make 200 international appearances and celebrated the milestone by scoring the winning goal in the 89th minute as Portugal beat Iceland 1-0 on Tuesday in European Championship qualifying.

The 38-year-old Ronaldo was honored by Guinness World Records before kickoff for reaching 200 games for Portugal almost 20 years after he made his debut. And he was celebrating at the end, too, after being on hand to score the later winner from close range and keep Portugal on track for Euro 2024 qualification with its fourth win from four games in Group J.

Kylian Mbappé's twice-taken penalty moved him one goal behind Michel Platini on France's all-time scoring list as Greece was beaten 1-0 in European Championship qualifying on Monday.

Platini won the Ballon d'Or three straight times from 1983-85 during his heyday with Juventus and France, for which the gifted playmaker scored and created goals with a casual brilliance that became his trademark.

The mascot for next year's European Championship in Germany will be a teddy bear — and this time it won't be naked from the waist down.

The mascot made its first appearance Tuesday morning by surprising children at a primary school in Gelsenkirchen, where it was set to appear again later before the team's friendly game against Colombia.

Two international soccer games stopped because of racial abuse between players. A United States-Mexico game cut short amid homophobic chants by fans. An advisor to Brazil player Vinícius Júnior racially harassed by a steward at a stadium in Spain.

All these incidents in the past week are evidence of an "urgent crisis" facing soccer, an anti-discrimination group that works with FIFA and European soccer body UEFA said Tuesday.

Unable to achieve the desired results with Cristiano Ronaldo at Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr, Rudi Garcia is facing an even bigger challenge as the new coach of Italian champion Napoli.

Garcia was hired to replace Luciano Spalletti, who is taking a year off from soccer after guiding Napoli to its first Serie A title since the days when Diego Maradona played for the club.

French investigators searched the headquarters of Paris Olympic organizers on Tuesday in a probe into suspected corruption, according to the national financial prosecutor's office.

The Paris organizing committee said in a statement that a search was under way at their headquarters in the suburb of Saint-Denis, and that "Paris 2024 is cooperating with the investigators to facilitate their investigations." It would not comment further.