The 28 members of the U.S. women's national team who filed a pay discrimination suit against soccer's governing body in March have tentatively agreed to mediation after the World Cup ends, a spokesman for the U.S. Soccer Federation confirmed Friday.

The suit, filed in federal court on March 8, seeks equitable pay and treatment, in addition to damages including back pay for the team, which has won three World Cups and four Olympic gold medals. Among the players involved in the suit are stars Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd.

The women's national team is in France playing in the 2019 World Cup, where it is favored to repeat as champion. The team has wrapped up group play with three wins in three games and without conceding a goal.

The lawsuit alleges "institutionalized gender discrimination" toward the team. It was filed under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. It notes that the women's players are required to play more games than the men's team and win more of those games yet still receive less pay from the federation. In addition to the complaints about wages, the suit also notes issues with where and how often the women's team played, medical treatment and coaching.

The suit mirrors the complaints made in a charge filed in 2016 by Lloyd, Morgan, Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and former goalkeeper Hope Solo with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. That complaint said that the women's national team members were paid almost four times less than the men in 2015 despite generating significantly more revenue that year. With that complaint stalled, the players received permission from the EEOC in February to sue instead.

The agreement to mediation after the World Cup was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The final is scheduled for July 7.

LAFC's Carlos Vela, D.C. United's Wayne Rooney and Orlando City's Nani were all included in Major League Soccer's Fan XI, which was announced on Friday, for the annual All-Star Game on July 31.

Alongside league goals leader Vela and former Manchester United teammates Rooney and Nani in MLS' showcase event are Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Jonathan dos Santos from LA Galaxy, veteran Sporting KC defender Graham Zusi and Atlanta United goalkeeper Brad Guzan.

The remaining slots on the MLS All-Star Team, set to face 10-time La Liga champions Atletico Madrid on July 31, will be announced at a later date and be made up of two commissioner's picks from Don Garber with the rest of the side filled out by Orlando City coach James O'Connor.

Last year's MLS All-Stars lost on penalties to Serie A champions Juventus after the match finished 1-1 in regular time.

FULL FAN XI:

Goalkeeper: Brad Guzan (Atlanta United)

Defenders: Leandro González Pírez (Atlanta United), Walker Zimmerman (Los Angeles Football Club), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City)

Midfielders: Ezequiel Barco (Atlanta United), Jonathan dos Santos (LA Galaxy), Gonzalo "Pity" Martínez (Atlanta United), Nani (Orlando City SC)

Forwards: Zlatan Ibrahimović (LA Galaxy), Wayne Rooney (D.C. United), Carlos Vela (Los Angeles Football Club)

To reduce the likelihood of them being sent off, goalkeepers at the Women's World Cup will not be booked for stepping off the goal line during penalty shootouts, soccer's law-making body, IFAB, said on Friday.

New regulations brought in from June 1 by IFAB mean that goalkeepers must have one foot at least partly on the line when the penalty is taken and can neither stand behind nor in front of it.

The law currently states that if a goalkeeper commits an offense, the kick must be retaken and the goalkeeper cautioned.

IFAB said that it had approved a request from global governing body FIFA for a temporary dispensation from the requirement to yellow card a keeper who is penalized for the offense.

"Both FIFA and the IFAB ... believe that the requirement to caution an offending goalkeeper in Kicks from the Penalty Mark (KFPM) in matches with Video Assistant Referees is not necessary and risks unfairly distorting the KFPM if a goalkeeper is sent off," IFAB said in a statement.

IFAB added that the presence of VAR increases the likelihood of offenses being detected.

"As goalkeepers are likely to face a number of kicks during KFPM, there is a higher risk that a goalkeeper will be sent off for receiving a second caution if already cautioned in normal time, or two cautions during the KFPM," the statement said.

The issue of keepers being penalized by VAR for coming off the line has been in the spotlight at the Women's World Cup.

Three goalkeepers so far have been shown yellow cards in the tournament for contravening this law. In France's game with Nigeria, Wendie Renard missed her first attempt at a penalty but after VAR intervened, goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie was cautioned for coming off her line. Renard was given the chance to retake the penalty and scored.

Scotland was eliminated from the tournament after their keeper, Lee Alexander, saved a stoppage-time penalty against Argentina only to be penalized for coming off her line.

Argentina's Florencia Bonsegundo scored on the retake to snatch a draw that sent Scotland crashing out.

Three penalties have been retaken at the World Cup because the goalkeeper did not have at least one foot on the goalline, sparking a debate about whether VAR should rule on the matter.

Goalkeepers will continue to be booked for coming off the line before penalties are taken in "normal time," as IFAB said it would be unfair to those who had already been cautioned for similar offenses if they changed the rule midway through the tournament.

"After the end of the tournament the disciplinary sanction for offenses committed by the goalkeeper at penalties might be further discussed within IFAB's panels," the chairman of FIFA's refereeing committee, Pierluigi Collina, said in a statement.

Prior to the rule change that went into effect June 1, goalkeepers were required to have both feet on the goal line when a penalty kick was taken. But that rule was sporadically enforced, goalkeepers often given leeway to move off the line. When the U.S. won the 1999 World Cup final in a penalty shootout against China, replays showed American goalkeeper Briana Scurry moved forward several steps before saving Liu Ying's shot from the penalty spot.

In an interview with FIFA, Collina alluded to the inconsistent enforcement of the old rule.

"We discussed this matter with players and coaches and eventually decided to help goalkeepers by allowing them to have only one foot on the goal line instead of two," Collina said. "Since that change their job is definitely easier than before, and it is also easier for them to respect the current law than the previous version. Then, if a law exists, referees must enforce it -- particularly when tools like VAR or GLT are available."

The World Cup's last-16 matches begin on Saturday.

Information from ESPN's Tom Hamilton and Graham Hays, as well as Reuters, contributed to this report.

Netherlands 291 for 7 (O'Dowd 59, van der Merwe 57, Edwards 44, Seelaar 32*, Williams 4-43) beat Zimbabwe 290 for 6 (Raza 85*, Ervine 84, Taylor 51) by three wickets

Zimbabwe came into this game after getting a proper beating. But nearly all of their key players stood up to change the narrative. Sikandar Raza played finisher to perfection, made 85 off only 68 balls, remaining unbeaten so that the efforts by his team-mates higher up the order - Craig Ervine scored 84 and Brendan Taylor struck a fifty as well - yielded a solid total. At the innings break, 290 for 6 looked a winning score. And that perception only grew when Sean Williams too four wickets with his left-arm spin.

Netherlands were 167 for 5 in the 33rd over. They had never chased a target as big as this in ODI cricket before. Fast forward to the 49th and they were gifted the winning run off a wide.

Much of the recovery had already been done, with Roelof van der Merwe striking a composed 57 off 54 balls and the wicketkeeper Scott Edwards keeping pace despite scoring only three boundaries in his unbeaten 44. That sixth-wicket partnership at nearly run a ball gave way to one for the seventh wicket that was pure mayhem.

The Netherlands captain Pieter Seelaar came out with the equation reading 62 off 42 balls and completely broke the game. He faced only 15 deliveries but sent six of them to the boundary to ensure his team set a new national record.

A big chase usually needs a good opening stand and Netherlands had that too. Tobias Visee, who will be opening the batting with Chris Gayle at the Global T20 Canada, batted in a matter befitting that as he whacked 41 off only 33 balls. His partner, Max O'Dowd who scored a half-century on debut on Wednesday followed it up with another, but when he fell to Williams, the game seemed to tilt towards Zimbabwe and the series was set to be shared 1-1.

Then everything changed.

Sri Lanka 232 for 9 (Mathews 85*, Avishka 49, Kusal Mendis 46, Wood 3-40, Archer 3-52) beat England 212 (Stokes 82*, Root 57, Malinga 4-43, Dhananjaya 3-32) by 20 runs

As it happened

Lasith Malinga conjured a vintage spell, part-time offspinner Dhananjaya de Silva struck three times in nine balls, Angelo Mathews scored a stubborn 85 not out, and Avishka Fernando made a rollicking 49 to shock tournament favourites England and give Sri Lanka enough reason to dream of a spot in the semi-finals.

There were other heroes as well for Sri Lanka. Nuwan Pradeep bowled some mean inswingers with the new ball and then returned for the last over to have No. 11 Mark Wood feathering behind to deny Ben Stokes, who remained unbeaten - and heartbroken - on 82 off 89 balls. Isuru Udana backed up his excellent pace variations with two sharp catches - one off his own bowling and the other at the edge of the boundary. Kusal Mendis (46), like Mathews, had produced his highest score of the tournament to haul Sri Lanka to a scrappy 232 for 9. All of this resulted in Sri Lanka admirably defending that meagre total against a mighty England side that had topped 300 in eight of their last nine ODI innings. This, despite some late monster blows from Stokes.

Watch on Hotstar (India only): Mathews' fighting 85 not out

He threatened a jailbreak even after England were reduced to 186 for 9 in the 44th over. He farmed the strike and teed off, violently carting Udana for back-to-back sixes and then hitting the returning Pradeep for back-to-back fours. Stokes found a single off the fifth ball of the 47th over and Wood needed to see off just one ball. However, it wasn't to be as Pradeep's near-perfect full ball in the channel grazed the thinnest of outside edges and capped a remarkable comeback for the ragtag, seemingly down-and-out team.

Malinga had struck with the second ball of the chase to pin local lad Jonny Bairstow lbw for a duck and, not much later, sent James Vince back caught at slip. He would return to whip up some old magic, dismissing the other local boy Joe Root for 57 and Jos Buttler for 10 in successive overs. While Root was late onto a glance and was snaffled down the leg side, the ball that bested Buttler was a Malinga special: an inch-perfect leg-stump yorker that burst under his bat and had him lbw.

Just as Sri Lanka were ramping up the pressure on England, Jeevan Mendis bowled a half-volley and a dirty long-hop that was smoked into the stands by Stokes. Enter Dhananjaya. Exit Moeen. The batsman had just aerially slog-swept an offbreak just away from the reach of deep midwicket, but he still ventured another big blow off the next ball and picked out Udana at long-off for 16. Then, in his next over, Dhananjaya took down both Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid to leave England at 178 for 8. It became 186 for 9 when Udana tricked Jofra Archer with his back-of-the-hand variation.

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Stokes then went bang, but Wood, who had hoped at the halfway mark that England might not need him with the bat, couldn't hang on with him. Had he safely negotiated that ball from Pradeep, England would have only had to deal with the change bowlers, with Malinga having bowled out too.

An upset did not seem likely when Root was unflappable in the early half of the chase, playing percentage shots on a slow, grippy Headingley pitch. He got cracking with a serene punch behind point, but Malinga and Pradeep didn't allow him to keep going with similar fluency. Root, though, soldiered to his fifth fifty-plus score in six innings this World Cup. However, it was his dismissal that triggered a full-blown collapse.

The sun was shining in its full glory in the morning, and Avishka played more glorious back-foot drives and pulls that had former Sri Lankan stylist Kumar Sangakarra gushing, "He's got timing, this boy!" on TV commentary. Archer was clubbed so far into the stands beyond square leg that the ball bounced off a railing and disappeared out of the ground. All told, Avishka took Archer for 24 off 15 balls. However, when Wood dug one short and wide outside off, he neither played an upper-cut nor a ramp and wound up simply gliding the ball into the lap of deep third man.

Mathews and Kusal Mendis then got together for a 71-run stand - the highest in the game. Mathews took 13 balls to get off the mark and 39 to find the boundary, but Kusal Mendis scored at a brisker clip at the other end as they kept Moeen and Rashid at bay until the 30th over. Rashid, who is nursing a shoulder issue and taking injections for it, suddenly rediscovered some zip and removed Kusal Mendis and Jeevan Mendis off successive balls to reduce Sri Lanka to 133 for 5.

With the innings spiralling out of control, Mathews adopted a more vigilant approach and tightened up further to give Sri Lanka a shot at batting out their 50 overs. Archer and Wood's extra pace made light work of the lower order, but they could not find a way past Mathews.

He tiptoed to an 84-ball half-century - the joint-slowest in this tournament alongside Afghanistan's Hashmatullah Shahidi's effort. But, it wasn't until the last over of the innings that Mathews unleashed a shot in anger. His lusty leg-side club off Archer helped Sri Lanka reach 232, which proved enough in the end.

Cricket has an unhealthy obsession with training. Of course, you need to come to the ground once before the match to look at the pitch, get the feel of it, but teams rightly take the day before the match easy. Fast bowlers usually give training a miss the day before. Main batsmen are left to their devices. If the coach feels someone needs work, that particular player is summoned. So it should not come as a big surprise if a team chooses to take the whole day off and indulges in other team-bonding activities. Not if you are losing, though.

And West Indies have been losing. Every game for them now is like a must-win. Next up are unbeaten New Zealand. West Indies are under the pump, and so it becomes a big issue to cricket that they didn't practise but went clay-target shooting on the eve of the game. They know the conditions from a full-on training session two days from the match. They have niggles to monitor. Yet their captain Jason Holder's press conference was almost like a hearing.

Holder didn't lose his cool. At least he didn't show it. "We had a team event," Holder said when asked if it was right his side had gone clay-target shooting instead of training. "We wanted to get the guys together, just have a team event, a team bonding session. And I think it went really well."

The assumption with West Indies missing the training is that they have already given up on the tournament. Holder found himself defending the side against such comments too. The thing is, there isn't enough verbal defending you can do. "I think the only thing we can do is come and play a solid game of cricket tomorrow against New Zealand," Holder said. "I think there has been enough talk going around for quite some time. And we've just got to play cricket now. I think we've done enough talking as a group. It's just a matter for us to deliver."

Their decision-making - a high-risk strategy of going short and quick with the ball and looking to hit big with the bat - has been under the scanner as has been playing half-fit players. It went too far when Andre Russell kept limping on the field against Bangladesh even though he didn't bowl after the 25th over. But that's how desperate it has been for West Indies: they kept him on in the hope he could deliver some magic against new batsmen if they do get a breakthrough somehow.

In the match against New Zealand, West Indies won't have that dilemma. "We've still got a few niggles within the group," Holder said. "We're trying to manage niggles the best we possibly can. I think one guy who probably may be definitely out tomorrow is Russell. I don't think he's fit enough to go tomorrow. But everybody else should be good to go."

West Indies do have hope, though. They are coming to a venue that has been full of runs, and they have memories of what they did to the New Zealand bowlers in the warm-up game: score 421 runs against virtually the same attack. They draw inspiration from that.

"It just shows what we can produce," Holder said of the warm-up game. "It's a situation where we've just got to pull on those resources, remember the things that we did in that game. And it just shows that when we're at our best what we can produce. I just think the guys just need to be clear, need to be calm and just execute their plans."

West Indies had to take the Qualifier route to the World Cup. They are playing with a team that rarely comes together. They are a side that has had to take risks and hope for some luck to compete in this tournament. They have been unfortunate with injuries and niggles. It is clear it has not worked out for them but they are a win short of being in the same boat as Bangladesh.

So it is not because of not training a day before the game that they find themselves in the position they are. Nor does it mean Holder has not had a stern word or three with the team. "I think it's a situation where you've had to be tough," Holder said. "We've had a few frank discussions within the dressing room to find ways in which we can improve on. I think all teams would get themselves in that situation at some point. But, yeah, we've had some pretty good discussions over the last couple of days. And tomorrow is just a day to deliver."

As for beating New Zealand, "I'd say it's not impossible. We've beaten them before. We can beat them again."

Eoin Morgan has admitted England "didn't deserve to win" their World Cup match against Sri Lanka in Leeds.

England's chances of qualifying for the semi-finals received a significant blow as a result of the 20-run defeat, with Morgan accepting's his side's batting was "not good enough to win the game."

But Morgan refused to single out Moeen Ali, who was caught on the long-off boundary with 53 required from 70 balls, for blame. Instead he suggested the entire batting line-up should take responsibility.

"Partnerships are very important and we struggled to get any partnerships going," Morgan said. "We had a couple of individual innings but that's not good enough to win a game.

"I don't think Moeen's wicket was the turning point. There were quite a few wickets which were turning points. You've got guys coming in at No. 6 who average 40 and at No. 7 who average 30. We bat all the way down. So every single one is significant as every single one could establish a partnership that could win the game.

"There were a couple of challenges which presented themselves with the wicket. We didn't overcome them. We didn't deserve to win today's game."

Jos Buttler, England's vice-captain, agreed. But he also praised Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga, who was named Man of the Match for his four wickets, and went on to suggest that England may have missed the injured Jason Roy.

"I think we lacked energy with the bat," he said. "We were a little bit passive as a group with the bat. And we haven't been for a long time so that, so that is the most frustrating thing.

"As a group we didn't have that intensity today. Obviously Jason is a guy who naturally gives us that but we can all do that from No. 1 to No. 11, so that is the most disappointing thing. We have played in a certain way for a long period of time and we went away from that today.

"Malinga is different. And we didn't counter him as well as we could today. But you do have to give credit to a fantastic bowler."

Despite the result, Morgan and Buttler expressed confidence in England's ability to quality for the semi-finals.

"The message is quite simple," Morgan said. "We need to do the basics of how we play well. We need to go back to the process that's made us a strong side.

"When we're beaten we tend to come back quite strong. We resort to aggressive, smart, positive cricket. So let's hope that the case when we play Australia at Lord's on Tuesday. There's no reason we why belief should not still be strong."

"That game will bring lots of intensity," Buttler said. "England and Australia games are big games and it's at a fantastic ground. This will hurt for a few days, but then we will get ready for the next game."