U.S. Soccer and the U.S. Women’s World Cup team reached a tentative agreement that will allow the players from to play against a world all-star team in a 12-city indoor victory tour of the United States this fall. Plans were canceled to send the players on a conflicting FIFA World Tour to Africa in October and November and to the Australia Cup in November and December. In exchange, the players agreed to wear U.S. uniforms on the tour, call themselves the U.S. women’s national team and play in five Federation-arranged matches later this year. IMG, U.S. Soccer’s marketing agency, will now work with SFX Sports Group, the tour creator, to set up sponsorships for the tour. However, the Federation will not make any money from the tour. “The big compromise and the most significant was the sponsorships between SFX and IMG, which wasn’t something that really affected the women,” said John Langel, the attorney for the players. “Yet the women were interested in that, because they didn’t want to and it was never their plan to interfere with the companies that sponsored the U.S. Soccer Federation for so long.” Before the agreement, U.S. Soccer had threatened to file an injunction to prevent the players from participating. It argued that the players participating in the tour would constitute the U.S. national team. But the players were going to call themselves the All-American Soccer Stars. “Everybody, the Federation and us, thought that was something that wouldn’t benefit anyone,” Langel said of the injunction. “But we were ready. We carefully thought out our position.” The U.S. players can make $50,000-100,000 each from the tour, depending on how many games they play. North Carolina senior Lorrie Fair will miss the tour. TOUR SCHEDULE Oct. 22 Pittsburgh. Oct. 24 Auburn Hills, Mich., Oct. 29 Cleveland, Oct. 31 Rosemont, Ill. Nov. 13 Philadelphia, Nov. 14 East Rutherford, N.J., Nov. 20 Landover, Md., Nov. 21 Raleigh, N.C., Dec. 9 Anaheim, Calif., Dec. 11 San Jose, Dec. 12 Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 15 Portland, Ore.