{"id":9353,"date":"2012-02-17T10:16:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9353"},"modified":"2012-02-17T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T16:38:53","slug":"pdl-season-openers-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9353","title":{"rendered":"PDL Season Openers Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier Development League (PDL) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uslsoccer.com\/schedules\/2012\/36407030.html\">released its schedule on Thursday<\/a>, with three\u00a0newly-formed New England\u00a0clubs\u00a0set to make their\u00a0debuts\u00a0on Saturday, May 5.<\/p>\n<p>CFC Azul will host Boston Victory SC at Yale University Reese Stadium\u00a0(7:30pm) in New Haven, Conn. while Worcester Hydra will play its first game against the re-branded Seacoast United (formerly New Hampshire Phantoms) at\u00a0Foley Stadium (7:00pm)\u00a0in Worcester, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Boston Victory will host its first home game on Saturday, May 12 when they welcome Worcester to Veterans Memorial Stadium (7:30pm) \u00a0in Quincy, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, New England&#8217;s remaining PDL clubs &#8211; MPS Portland Phoenix, Vermont Voltage and Western Mass Pioneers &#8211; will commence their regular season schedules the weekend of May 11-13. The Pioneers will face Seacoast United on Friday, May 11 at Lusitano Stadium (7:30pm)\u00a0in Ludlow, Mass., while MPS Portland will host Vermont at Deering High School (6:00pm)\u00a0in Portland, Maine on Saturday, May 12.<\/p>\n<p>The seven New England-based squads will play in the revamped, eight-team\u00a0Northeast Division, which also includes the Ottawa Fury. Last year, MPS Portland captured the division crown with an 8-3-5 (29 pts.) record.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 PDL season officially kicks off on April 22 in Fresno, Calif., where the Fresno Fuego will host L.A. Misioneros FC at Chukchansi Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Victory, CFC Azul and Worcester Hydra will all make their PDL debuts on Saturday, May 5. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7768,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pdlnelogosfeature.jpg?fit=490%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353"}],"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=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9362,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions\/9362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}