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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s state government will take back control of the crisis-ridden Maracana stadium and break the contract with its private administrators.Gov. Wilson Witzel said Monday that the group running the 78 https://www.thetopsoccer.com/uswnt/ashlyn-harris-jersey ,000-seat facility owes the state around $10 million dating to March 2017.“The Maracana generates revenue,” Witzel said. “It will be run by the state in a partnership with clubs. I don’t see any difficulties in that.”Soccer clubs Flamengo and Fluminense, which play at the stadium, both supported the termination of the contract with the former operator, the Consorcio Maracana Christen Press Jersey , led by conglomerate Odebrecht.Witzel said the move is expected to be completed within 30 days and that the stadium’s future could not be attached to a “company that was sentenced.”Odebrecht has had several executives, including its CEO, arrested in the sprawling Operation Car Wash corruption probe. Investigators have determined that companies, including Odebrecht, paid billions of dollars in bribes to politicians to secure contracts and political favors.The Consorcio Maracana said in a statement that it will comment after reviewing the decision.Rio’s state legislature decided earlier this year to investigate the contract between the state and the administrator.The stadium’s renovation for the 2014 World Cup cost about $350 million to Brazilian taxpayers. It fell into disrepair after the 2016 Summer Olympics amid legal disputes Carli Lloyd Jersey , and in 2017, Consorcio Maracana won a bid to run the stadium with plans to invest around $156 million into it over 35 years.The Consorcio Maracana was also supposed to pay the Rio government about $1.5 million each year, which Witzel said never materialized.The historic arena, which hosted two World Cup finals, will be the site of the Copa America final on July 7. MIDDLESBROUGH https://www.thetopsoccer.com/uswnt/tobin-heath-jersey , England (AP) — Former England soccer star Paul Gascoigne briefly wept in the witness box Tuesday as he denied any sexual intent when he kissed a female passenger on a train.The 52-year-old Gascoigne is on trial accused of sexual assault after the passenger alleged he “forcibly and sloppily” planted an unwanted kiss on her lips in August last year.Gascoigne admitted giving the woman “just a little peck,” but said that no tongue was involved and insisted that it was not sexual.He also claimed he was kissed “constantly” over the years and jurors at the Teesside Crown Court were shown a montage of images of Gascoigne kissing and being kissed by other people, including other footballers, fans and even by the late Diana, Princess of Wales.Gascoigne Alex Morgan Jersey , who has struggled with alcohol and mental-health problems, was arrested at Durham station on Aug. 20. He said the incident happened after he was asked for a selfie, which the complainant took of him with two other women on the train. He claimed someone on the train then shouted: “You don’t want a photo with her, she’s fat and ugly.”Gascoigne recalled telling her to “take no notice of what they say” and “listen, you’re not fat and ugly Mallory Pugh Jersey , you are beautiful inside.”He also denied trying to embarrass or humiliate the woman by kissing her, replying: “She had already been humiliated.”Gascoigne told the court he was travelling back to Newcastle from Birmingham with his teenage nephews, having been to Belfast to watch a boxing match.