{"id":32653,"date":"2015-03-20T16:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=32653"},"modified":"2015-03-21T01:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T05:14:21","slug":"snow-rain-may-impact-revs-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=32653","title":{"rendered":"Snow, Rain May Affect Revs Home Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/training1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32424\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=32424\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/training1.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" 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=\"training1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/training1.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/training1.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/training1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"training1\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/training1.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/training1.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So much for gentle step into spring.<\/p>\n<p>Snow and rain are predicted ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Revolution home opener against the Montreal Impact at Gillette Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>According to weather.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/weather\/hourbyhour\/l\/USMA0146:1:US\">snow flurries are expected for the Foxborough through the early afternoon<\/a>, with temperatures expected to reach the low-40s. Saturday&#8217;s kickoff is set for 3:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>The weather pattern that&#8217;s expected to bring snow and rain to the region has already affected at least one MLS match. Friday&#8217;s Philadelphia Union-FC Dallas match at PPL Park in Chester, Pa. has been moved to Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Revolution enter Saturday&#8217;s home debut 0-2-0 after setbacks in Seattle and New York. The club has only opened the regular season at home once (2008) in their 20 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Thursday&#8217;s training session, Revolution defender Darrius Barnes said the club doesn&#8217;t dwell on the fact that the schedule makers consistently put the club on the road to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is what it is,&#8221; Barnes said. &#8220;It\u2019s something you can\u2019t help, there\u2019s (weather) issues that go into it with it being cold in New England at the beginning of the season. It\u2019s something that we know, it\u2019s not something that we\u2019re negative about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The club is expecting a crowd of 15,000 for Saturday&#8217;s home opener. Last year, the Revolution were 1-0-1 in games at home in which the temperature was between 30-49 degrees at kickoff.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow and rain is anticipated early Saturday, but is expected to taper off by first kick. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32424,"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":[3],"tags":[119,888,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/training1.png?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32653"}],"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=32653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32673,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32653\/revisions\/32673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}