{"id":1452,"date":"2008-05-08T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/free-or-not-so-free-champions-league-football\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T02:02:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T08:02:57","slug":"free-or-not-so-free-champions-league-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/free-or-not-so-free-champions-league-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Free or NOT so Free: Champions League Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Champions League Final is the grand-daddy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uefa.com\/competitions\/ucl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">European Club Football<\/a> contests.  <\/p>\n<p>This year, the final is in Moscow and in a new development, all ticket holders attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uefa.com\/competitions\/ucl\/news\/kind=1\/newsid=692194.html\" target=\"_blank\">Champions League final<\/a> are able to use their game ticket as a free, visa entry to the Russian Federation for a 72-hour period.  <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get too excited about the &#8220;free&#8221; 72 hour visa with ticket.  The way that I calculate it&#8230;a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russia-visa.com\/russian_visa_fees.php\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Visa<\/a> is anywhere from $150-$200.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetticket.nl\/football\/match-195\/Champions_League_Tickets\/ticket-756\/Champions_League_Final\/\" target=\"_blank\">Champions League Ticket<\/a>? About $1500 Euro.<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/605008_biglandscape-784612.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/605008_biglandscape-784609.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Champions League Final is the grand-daddy of European Club Football contests.<br \/>\nThis year, the final is in Moscow and in a new development, all ticket holders attending the Champions League final are able to use their game ticket as a free, visa entry to the Russian Federation for a 72-hour period.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t get too excited about the &#8220;free&#8221; 72 hour visa with ticket.  The way that I calculate it&#8230;a Russian Visa is anywhere from $150-$200.  A Champions League Ticket? About $1500 Euro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}