Extended Practice Backgrounds

I've been struggling with what to put in the background of my publication as I know I can do the images of the players and that's going to be fine, it's just the backgrounds I've been struggling with I wanted to incorporate some stories about the players but I'm not sure that's going to work anymore as the project's become less about the players.

I found these images for the women's world cup in 2015 I love these and think they're so strong, doing something like this with my illustrations could work really well if I do the background by hand and then edit the images together.