{"id":40907,"date":"2016-02-24T18:22:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T23:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=40907"},"modified":"2016-02-24T18:28:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T23:28:33","slug":"lowells-green-lions-set-for-major-league-futsal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=40907","title":{"rendered":"Lowell’s Green Lions Set for Major League Futsal Action"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo credit: Green Lions Soccer Academy<\/p><\/div>\n

Safira FC won’t be the only Mass.-based futsal side set to join the national ranks<\/a> as Lowell’s Green Lions Soccer Academy will partake in the debut season of Major League Futsal (MLF) this year.<\/p>\n

The Green Lions, which started up as a youth futsal program with teams in MAPLE, will be fielding its first proper adult team in MLF, which officially welcomed the club as an expansion side in January.<\/p>\n

“The MLF (is)\u00a0a great opportunity to do this,” Green Lions Soccer President and Co-Founder Leo Mejia told NESoccerToday.com<\/em>. “It will be a great challenge and we may be too ambitious. We do believe it is a great chance to help Futsal advance and give our youth players something to look up to.”<\/p>\n

The Green Lions will compete in the Eastern Conference of the MLF, which will also feature Safira FC as well as fellow New England-based futsal side Expose Select. The Lowell selection hasn’t yet established its home gym, but is looking at venues in Greater Boston.<\/p>\n

MLF is expected to kick off its inaugural season in March with a schedule that will run through July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Green Lions Soccer Academy will be one of two Mass.-based sides set to compete in MLF’s inaugural season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40908,"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":[1400],"tags":[1454,1455,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GreenLions-1.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\/40907"}],"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=40907"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40916,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40907\/revisions\/40916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}