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Super Bowl 50 is nearly a month away, with the NFL playoffs set to begin Saturday. Naturally, there are plenty of preparations to be made at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California—but a youth soccer league is fighting those preparations, according to David Louie of ABC7News.com.

"A youth soccer league has filed a lawsuit against the National Football League and the city of Santa Clara," Louie reported. "That's because the NFL started construction Monday in the soccer fields across from Levi's Stadium as part of plans for Super Bowl 50."

The NFL began construction with plans to create "a media village, security and event staging," per Louie. That construction is estimated to be displacing 6,000 youth soccer players.

Louie noted that "Santa Clara officials said they are going to turn over the field to the NFL even though a court challenge by the youth soccer league is set for Wednesday."

Soccer league attorney Gautam Dutta commented on the situation, per Louie: "The judge had made it clear that while there was no ... temporary restraining order in place, that he would not be pleased if anything drastic occurred in the interim before the previously scheduled Wednesday afternoon hearing."

According to Louie's report, the NFL said it would not dig on the fields, but this photo suggests otherwise:

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Ramona Giwargis of the San Jose Mercury News provided more images as well as the opinion of local soccer advocates:

The Super Bowl is set for Sunday, Feb. 7.