FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron, right, shakes hands with French soccer player Kylian Mbappe next to head coach Didier Deschamps as he arrives for lunch at the national soccer team training center in Clairefontaine, west of Paris, Monday, June 3, 2024. In the end, not even French president Emmanuel Macron could pull enough strings to free up his country's finest soccer player to compete in the Paris Games. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - Argentina's Lionel Messi, front, fights for the ball with Brazil's Anderson during their men's semifinal soccer match at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in China, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. Clubs are not required to release players for the men's Olympic tournament. Inter Miami likely would not be too happy about its just-turned 37-year-old icon playing at the Copa America and the Olympics in the middle of the MLS season. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)
FILE - France's Kylian Mbappe reacts during the international friendly soccer match between France and Canada at the Matmut Atlantique stadium in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Sunday, June 9, 2024. In the end, not even French president Emmanuel Macron could pull enough strings to free up his country's finest soccer player to compete in the Paris Games. (AP Photo/Yohan Bonnet, File)