{"id":44683,"date":"2017-03-22T08:21:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=44683"},"modified":"2017-03-22T08:21:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:21:14","slug":"usasa-southie-among-4-set-for-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=44683","title":{"rendered":"USASA: Southie Among 4 Set for Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_43153\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43153\" data-attachment-id=\"43153\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=43153\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Southie1.png?fit=600%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,416\" 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=\"Southie1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Southie FC&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Southie1.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Southie1.png?fit=600%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Southie1.png?resize=600%2C416\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Southie1.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Southie1.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Southie FC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Southie FC will meet defending Cup champion Kendall Wanderers FC for USASA Werner Fricker U.S. Open Cup qualifying at 4:00pm on Saturday at Hormel Stadium in Medford, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Southie, which is also undertaking USASA National Amateur Cup qualifying, is hoping to reach the state final after it fell short last year. Kendall Wanderers are the defending state cup champion.<\/p>\n<p>The other state semifinal will pit Safira Soccer against Boston Olympiakos on Sunday, with the venue and kickoff time to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s winners will meet in the state final on Apr. 2.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, USASA established the Werner Fricker USASA Open Cup to recognize the champion among its own participants. The Cup continues through the efforts of Region I and Region II with the hope that the other regions will enter in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southie FC, Kendall Wanderers FC, Safira FC, an Boston Olympiakos are set for Werner Fricker U.S. Open Cup qualifying this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43153,"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":[177],"tags":[541,368,1334,892,1509],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Southie1.png?fit=600%2C416&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44683"}],"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=44683"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44689,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44683\/revisions\/44689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}