{"id":24191,"date":"2014-03-02T19:10:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T00:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=24191"},"modified":"2014-03-11T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T16:15:44","slug":"junior-scores-in-las-vegas-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=24191","title":{"rendered":"Junior Scores in Vegas Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24192\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vegas2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24192\" data-attachment-id=\"24192\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=24192\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vegas2.png?fit=455%2C283&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"455,283\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"vegas2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Las Vegas Legends&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vegas2.png?fit=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vegas2.png?fit=455%2C283&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24192\" alt=\"Photo credit: Las Vegas Legends\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vegas2.png?resize=455%2C283\" width=\"455\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vegas2.png?w=455&amp;ssl=1 455w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vegas2.png?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Las Vegas Legends<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a memorable debut on all fronts for\u00a0Alencar &#8220;Junior&#8221; Ventura in Saturday&#8217;s Professional Arena Soccer League (PASL) quarterfinal between the Las Vegas Legends and the San Diego Sockers at Las Vegas Sports Park.<\/p>\n<p>The local scoring phenom scored in the first quarter to help give the Legends seize an 11-7 win over the Sockers, who entered the match winners of the last four PASL titles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, they knocked us out in the Final Four, and now it\u2019s our turn,\u201d team owner and coach Meir Cohen told the <em>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s sweet revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Legends\u00a0signed Junior, who\u00a0scored nine goals in six games for the Western Mass Pioneers last year,\u00a0ahead of the\u00a0quarterfinal clash.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas\u00a0will play in the semifinals against Hidalgo La Fiera FC (Hidalgo, Tex.)\u00a0on Mar. 15 in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alencar &#8220;Junior&#8221; Ventura scored in Saturday&#8217;s PASL quarterfinal clash against the San Diego Sockers. <\/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":[440,677,678],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24196,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24191\/revisions\/24196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}