{"id":17924,"date":"2013-01-25T19:35:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T00:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=17924"},"modified":"2013-01-25T19:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T00:43:59","slug":"revs-skc-draw-0-0-in-preseason-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=17924","title":{"rendered":"Revs, SKC draw 0-0 in Preseason Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"cf12a51oi\" width=\"455\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" name=\"cf12a51on\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/p.mlssoccer.com\/YIfkP\/video\/1396522\/1396522_2013-01-25-185722.640hq.mp4\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Ninety minutes came and went without a goal in\u00a0Friday&#8217;s 0-0 preseason opening draw between the New England Revolution and Sporting Kansas City at Case Grande World in Casa Grande, Ariz.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Reis and Bobby Shuttleworth kept New England&#8217;s net clean while Sporting K.C. used Jimmy Nielsen, Eric Kronberg\u00a0and\u00a0Jon Kempin between the sticks.<\/p>\n<p>The match featured three separate 30-minutes periods for the purposes of building fitness as both clubs opened their respective\u00a0preseason camps less than a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Revolution first round pick Andrew Farrell played right back in the second period, then went to center back for the final 30.<\/p>\n<p>Diego Fagundez and Sainey Nyassi\u00a0gave the Revolution a pair of chances to crack the scoresheet, but were thwarted by the goalkeeping of Kronberg and Kempin, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>New signing Kalifa Cisse earned the Revolution&#8217;s lone caution in the fourth minute.<\/p>\n<p>Former Revolution midfielder Benny Feilhaber, who was traded to Kansas City in December, was not available for the match due to U.S. Men&#8217;s National Team obligations.<\/p>\n<p>New England is scheduled to play their next preseason friendly on Tuesday, Jan. 29, when they face Vancouver Whitecaps FC at Grande Sports World at 5 p.m. MT\/7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revolution earned a 0-0 draw against Sporting Kansas City in its preseason opener on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[213,249,1274,68],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17927,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924\/revisions\/17927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}