{"id":45139,"date":"2017-04-22T15:26:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T19:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=45139"},"modified":"2017-04-22T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T19:27:00","slug":"revs-u-23s-pioneers-set-for-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=45139","title":{"rendered":"Revs U-23s, Pioneers Set for Home-Away Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45141\" style=\"width: 609px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45141\" data-attachment-id=\"45141\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=45141\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Revs-Pioneers-1.png?fit=599%2C415\" data-orig-size=\"599,415\" 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=\"Revs-Pioneers-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credits: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz and David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Revs-Pioneers-1.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Revs-Pioneers-1.png?fit=599%2C415\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Revs-Pioneers-1.png?resize=599%2C415\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Revs-Pioneers-1.png?w=599 599w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Revs-Pioneers-1.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-45141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credits: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz and David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The New England Revolution Under-23 squad will face the Western Mass Pioneers in a pair of friendlies this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Revs U-23 squad, which is comprised of former players from its Youth Academy and local college prospects, will play its first game against the Pioneers at 7:00 pm on Jun. 3 at Lusitano Stadium in Ludlow, Mass. The second matchup will take place at Gillette Stadium on Jul. 11.<\/p>\n<p>Pioneers head coach Federico Molinari expects the contests against the Revs U-23s to provide a quality test against his squad, which finished second in the Northeast Division of the PDL last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great opportunity for our players to have another meaningful game against good competition,&#8221;  Molinari said in a club release. \u201cThe Revolution U-23s are well coached and have good players, they will match up well against us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Revs U-23s are a non-affiliated club that will play series of friendlies against local competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revs U-23s and the Pioneers will be pitted against each other for a pair of friendlies this summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45141,"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":true,"_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":[3],"tags":[891,1620,888,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Revs-Pioneers-1.png?fit=599%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45139"}],"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=45139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45143,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45139\/revisions\/45143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}