Ben Lederman, the teenage soccer player whose career at Barcelona was cut short by FIFA transfer regulations, has returned to the United States and plans to enroll at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.

Lederman, 15, was the first United States-born player invited to train at the Barcelona academy, joining when he was 11. But he has been unable to represent the club in more than a year after FIFA punished Barcelona in a dispute about the registrations of underage players, and he has spent the past year in bureaucratic limbo, barred from matches but training with his team.

Even that has now disappeared. Spanish news media reports Monday said FIFA had ordered that any remaining ineligible Barcelona youth players could no longer live at the club’s academy, La Masia, or use its facilities.

Lederman lived with his family, but not at La Masia, and before the latest FIFA ruling, his family decided to send him back to the United States. Lederman and his parents visited IMG over the weekend, and he will begin classes Tuesday.