Sports journalists planning to travel to the upcoming soccer World Cup in Russia were surprised to receive a “flirting manual” that included a section on “how to have a chance with a Russian girl.”

Journalist Nacho Catullo said on Twitter he was among the dozens of reporters and soccer officials who received the manual while attending a free course on Russian language and culture set up by the Argentine Football Association (AFA). It was there, he said, that they handed out the manual.

“The syle manual from the AFA on the world cup is very modern,” he wrote, sarcastically, in a post showing photos of the chapter on flirting.

The advice from the AFA was divided into eight sections that went straight to the point, telling journalists in the first section to “look clean, smell nice and dress well” in order to impress Russian “girls.”

“The first impression is very important for them, pay attention to your image,” the document said in Spanish.

High up in the document, the manual urges men to treat women as “something of worth.”

“Many men, because Russian women are beautiful, only want to take them home,” it continued. “Maybe they also want that, but they are people that want to feel important and unique.”

“Don’t ask stupid question about sex. For Russians, sex is something very private and not discussed in public.”

At the end, the manual said: “You will of course find girls that only pay attention to the material things, money, if you are attractive… Don’t worry, there are many beautiful women in Russia and not all are good for you. Be selective.”

Social media users expressed outrage and mocked the posts. Catullo posted the tweets while the course was still going on.

Alejandro Taraborelli, spokesman for the education department with the AFA, confirmed in a statement that the document was real and that once they were made of aware of the situation, they quickly “retrieved the material.”

“The teacher selected the information to give out to the attendees and, unfortunately, by an involuntary error, at the time of printing a text that was never part of the training was included," said Taraborelli, adding that the subject does not reflect the beliefs held by the association.

The professor who gave the course, Eduardo Pennisi, told Argentinian newspaper Clarin that he sent the text to the AFA about a month ago, and it was approved and sent to print.

“I didn’t come from my house with the documents,” he said, adding that he downloaded the document from the internet because he thought it was “interesting.”

“Russian girls are very special, it’s all explained well there,” Pennisi, an attorney and Russian language professor, told Clarin. “The advice is very innocent, absolutely innocent.”

Local media reported the AFA has removed the controversial chapter from a blog on the internet.

The FIFA World Cup is schedule to start on June 14.

One of Israel’s top soccer teams wants to remind the world – apparently forever – that it appreciates President Trump’s decision to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem.

Beitar Jerusalem announced Sunday that the team will now be named “Beitar Trump Jerusalem” in honor of the president’s “courageous move” to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.

“Trump has shown courage, and true love of the Israeli people and their capital, and these days other countries are following his lead in giving Jerusalem its rightful status,” the team wrote on a Facebook post with an image of Trump between the Israeli and American flags.

“The chairmen of the club, the owner Eli Tabib and the executive manager Eli Ohana have decided to add to the club's title the name of the American President who made history, and from now on will be called Beitar Trump Jerusalem,” it added. “We have the greatest love for the President, and it will win!”

Beitar Jerusalem is currently in second place in Israel’s soccer league and has qualified for next season’s Europa League, an annual international tournament comprising of teams that finish in the upper echelon of European competition.

Despite the announced name change though, the county’s Football Association still has to approve it, and Beitar Jerusalem has not yet received permission to use Trump -- a registered trademark in Israel – as part of its identity, the Jerusalem Post reports.

ATLANTA –  From the street, this city's Five Points MARTA station seems like any other subway stop – with the usual city smells, rumbling rail cars and weathered sidewalks.

But it’s actually extraordinary – on the international level. A view from above explains why.

A five-a-side soccer field sits on top of the city’s busiest subway station, transforming an unfinished community space that had been roped off for years. 

“Why not eliminate that [vacant space] and build fields at stations?” Sanjay Patel asked himself, after seeing kids use the subway in the United Kingdom to get to games. “[We can] use the existing transit network to connect communities.” 

When he began proposing his idea to others, Patel said “a lot of people thought it was kind of an outlandish, crazy idea that probably wouldn’t come to fruition.” After all, this would be the first subway station in the world with a soccer field on top of it.

But he had one big believer in his so-called crazy idea – Phil Hill, the executive director of Soccer in the Streets, an Atlanta-based youth athletic program.

Hill runs the non-profit organization, shuttling underprivileged kids to soccer games around the city – a field of work inspired by his world travels.

“I could put a soccer ball down in the middle of a desert in Egypt or a harbor side in Turkey and start playing soccer with locals or kids,” Hill recalled. “It was an instant connection.”

But when he arrived in Atlanta in 1993, he quickly learned the city operated differently. Hill said private fields – reachable only by car – along with steep participation fees sharply limited access to the sport.

In 2016, Soccer in the Streets introduced its first subway station field, dubbed Station Soccer.

David Sumpter is a professor in Sweden and analyzes the intersection of math and soccer around the world. He applauded Atlanta’s project, calling it a great use of urban space. “Football should be the most accessible of sports because it’s so easy to play,” Sumpter told Fox News in an email. 

He cited a similar five-a-side pitch under a motorway in Manchester, England. “The less space the players have, the better they get technically,” Sumpter said.

People of all ages can take MARTA to the field for events, leagues and pick-up games, which are free for kids.

Rinah Gardner said as a mother of three, the free programming has been a blessing for her family.

Another parent, Luis Nieves, agreed. “It’s why I come here,” Nieves said. “Because we don’t have a lot of money, so I come here because it’s a good opportunity for [my son, Yamil],” who dreams of going pro.

Collaboration between Soccer in the Streets, the Atlanta United Foundation, MARTA and several local lighting and turf companies funded the $150,000 project.

The non-profit plans on opening nine more fields at MARTA stations throughout the city, one as early as this summer.

“We can connect the Hispanic kids in the North, African American kids in the West, refugee kids in the East” all through MARTA, Hill said, transforming Station Soccer into the League of Stations.

Jose Navarrete, 11, took MARTA with his older sister to a Sunday afternoon practice. This is exactly the type of convenience Patel dreams of bringing families with the League of Stations.

“I‘ll die happy the day I see kids on the train here in Atlanta with soccer gear on going to play other kids,” he told Fox News.

But the players aren’t the only ones benefitting from Station Soccer.

Now, more than a year since the field’s implementation, MARTA police found their primary concern around safety at the station actually improved as a result of the program.

Amanda Rhein, senior director of transit oriented development, said by putting more people around Five Points, Station Soccer has “deterred more negative activity.”

As additional fields are rolled out across the city, she is hopeful that same improvement in safety will be mirrored at other stations.

MARTA has not seen a change in ridership numbers since the field’s implementation, but Rhein is confident the development of the League of Stations will make Atlanta’s notoriously underutilized public transportation more popular.

Rhein said the fields are not permanent, but instead more of a stepping stone to another, larger development project. Although, that’s not to say the fields will all disappear after five years. She added the transit agency could rotate the fields to different stations.

As with many “firsts,” Station Soccer has attracted attention from around the country. Rhein cited dozens of inquiries from transit agencies, municipalities and public and private planners regarding the field at Five Points.

The concept opens up the sport to people who never considered soccer feasible for their kids because of cost and transportation issues. And by expanding the pool of players, Station Soccer said it is improving talent in the city.

“So that’s an exciting part, just as a soccer fan,” Hill said, “that we can be instrumental in creating a model” that can maybe one day help America win the World Cup.

But for Hill, improving America’s level of play is just a nice byproduct of the program. The non-profit’s priority is improving the quality of life for kids and “opening their eyes to what’s possible in the world.”