Soccer

Africa will have a third team in the 1994 World Cup and the North and Central American and Caribbean zones could have three teams, too, soccer’s world governing body decided.

The executive committee of the Federation of International Football Associations met for the first time since last summer’s World Cup and rejected Asia’s bid for a third spot.

It also banned Iraq from all international games because of the Gulf crisis, banned Colombia from playing host to international games because of drug violence, and kicked Costa Rica out of the 1992 Olympic soccer tournament because it used an overage player in a youth tournament five years ago.