{"id":37728,"date":"2015-08-17T11:49:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T15:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=37728"},"modified":"2015-08-17T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T15:49:46","slug":"pioneers-newtown-pride-fc-set-for-festa-faceoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=37728","title":{"rendered":"Pioneers, Newtown Pride FC Set for Festa Faceoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36251\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pioneers-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36251\" data-attachment-id=\"36251\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=36251\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pioneers-12.png?fit=600%2C415\" data-orig-size=\"600,415\" 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=\"Pioneers-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pioneers-12.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pioneers-12.png?fit=600%2C415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36251\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pioneers-12.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pioneers-12.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pioneers-12.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Soccer will take center stage in Ludlow, Mass. during its annual <em>festa<\/em> weekend once again as the Western Mass Pioneers will play a friendly against Connecticut Soccer League outfit Newtown Pride FC at 3:00pm on Sept. 6 at Lusitano Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The match will take during the Our Lady of Fatima Parish Festa<em>,<\/em> which is held every year during Labor Day weekend. The annual festa is one of the most popular in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Western Mass Pro Soccer hosted its inaugural ASL match during the festa. In 2013, the\u00a0Gremio Lusitano Club &#8211; the organization that also runs the Pioneers &#8211;\u00a0played the Pride during festa weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is hoping that the friendly kickstarts an annual tradition,\u00a0with the possibility of awarding\u00a0a trophy to the winner every year.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the Pioneers-Pride match is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Mass Pioneers and Newtown Pride FC will play a friendly during Labor Day weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36251,"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":[27],"tags":[704,1263,1264,998,892,1294],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pioneers-12.png?fit=600%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37728"}],"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=37728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37731,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37728\/revisions\/37731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}