{"id":44468,"date":"2017-03-06T19:26:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=44468"},"modified":"2017-03-06T19:26:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:26:55","slug":"pdl-pioneers-unveil-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=44468","title":{"rendered":"PDL: Pioneers Unveil Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_43163\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43163\" data-attachment-id=\"43163\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=43163\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tomas-1.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=\"Tomas-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tomas-1.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tomas-1.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43163\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tomas-1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tomas-1.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tomas-1.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Western Mass Pioneers will kick off their 20th season in May after the squad revealed its PDL schedule for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>While the club commences its 14-match PDL fixture list May 13, the Pioneers&#8217; first opportunity to hit the pitch will come May 10 for a first-round U.S. Open Cup match, which will likely pit them against Bay State Soccer League side GPS Omens. U.S. Soccer will announce the first-round matchups on Apr. 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is great for the team to qualify for the Open Cup,\u201d Pioneers head coach Federico Molinari said in a club release. \u201cThere is a lot of history here, and it is important for us to play well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first time the Pioneers qualified for the Open Cup was in 1998, when they reached the second round. The furthest the team advanced was in 2005, when they hosted MLS side Chicago Fire in a third round game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, we qualified for the playoffs and the Open Cup\u201d Pioneers General Manager Greg Kolodziey said in a club release. \u201cThat\u2019s the mission again. Hopefully, we can host an Open Cup game and win enough to have a good season and qualify for the postseason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wmpioneers.com\/images\/404_Pioneers_2017_Schedule.png?w=615\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pioneers released their 2017 schedule, which includes a first-round Open Cup tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43163,"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":[84],"tags":[891,1291,892,1283,1294],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tomas-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\/44468"}],"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=44468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44472,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44468\/revisions\/44472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}