{"id":42600,"date":"2016-04-18T20:55:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42600"},"modified":"2016-04-18T20:58:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:58:47","slug":"futsal-safira-sweeps-opening-weekend-foes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42600","title":{"rendered":"Futsal: Safira Sweeps Opening Weekend Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42601\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42601\" data-attachment-id=\"42601\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=42601\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Safira-10.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=\"Safira-10\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Safira FC&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Safira-10.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Safira-10.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Safira-10.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: Safira FC\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Safira-10.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Safira-10.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Safira FC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It all went according to plan for national futsal power Safira FC in its debut weekend of Major League Futsal play after securing a pair of convincing wins at Durfee High School in Fall River, Mass. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the three-time U.S. Futsal National champs staked a 7-3 win over Cleveland Xtreme Futsal. Safira then ran away with Sunday&#8217;s clash against fellow Commonwealth outfit, Green Lions MA, via an 8-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Lions won their Saturday clash against New England FC 3-2 to go 1-1 during their opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Safira (2-0-0) will look to keep their unbeaten run intact when they return to action on Apr. 30 when they face Toronto United in Toronto. <\/p>\n<p>The Green Lions (1-1-0) will be back on the court on Apr. 30 in Fall River where they&#8217;ll face New England FC once again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time national champion Safira FC swept the competition in its first weekend of MLF action. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42601,"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":[1454,1455,368,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Safira-10.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\/42600"}],"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=42600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42603,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42600\/revisions\/42603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}