{"id":35657,"date":"2015-06-11T08:20:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=35657"},"modified":"2015-06-11T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T12:20:13","slug":"portugal-greece-euro-rematch-in-lawrence-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=35657","title":{"rendered":"Portugal-Greece Euro Rematch in Lawrence Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/POR-GRE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34146\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=34146\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/POR-GRE.png?fit=600%2C421\" data-orig-size=\"600,421\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"POR-GRE\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/POR-GRE.png?fit=300%2C211\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/POR-GRE.png?fit=600%2C421\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/POR-GRE.png?resize=600%2C421\" alt=\"POR-GRE\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/POR-GRE.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/POR-GRE.png?resize=300%2C211 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The much-anticipated Legends Cup exhibition match, which was set to bring a number of notable players from the 2004 Euro final between Portugal and Greece to Veterans Stadium in Lawrence, Mass. on Friday, has been cancelled. <\/p>\n<p>Etix.com, the event&#8217;s official ticket agency, sent out an e-mail to ticket holders on Thursday advising that the match had been cancelled due to &#8220;schedule conflicts and travel arrangements.&#8221; The agency advised that full refunds will be issued.<\/p>\n<p>The match was originally set to feature Portugal&#8217;s Nuno Gomes, Maniche, Fernando Couto, Rui Barros, Simao and Costinha along with Greece&#8217;s Angelos Charisteas, Angelos Basinas, Giourkas Seitardis and Dimitrios Papadopoulo. Charisteas scored the decider in the 2004 Final, which Greece won 1-0 at Estadio da Luz in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the original press announcement, the Portuguese players were &#8220;not calling this a friendly&#8221; and were &#8220;traveling to Lawrence to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now that the rematch is off, supporters of both squads are left to wonder how it would have played out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-hyped rematch between the squads from the 2004 Euro final has been cancelled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34146,"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":[26],"tags":[1166,1094,459,1129,892,1167],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/POR-GRE.png?fit=600%2C421","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35657"}],"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=35657"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35664,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35657\/revisions\/35664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}