{"id":1473,"date":"2008-06-08T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/08\/football-friendly-at-soldier-field\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T16:48:00","slug":"football-friendly-at-soldier-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/football-friendly-at-soldier-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Friendly at Soldier Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/P_Mexico1-721058.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/P_Mexico1-721055.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This weekend is all about soccer. But, if you really want to sound like you know what you are talking about, especially to Europeans, start calling &#8220;soccer&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;football.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tonight, the Mexican National team (or El Tricolor to the fans) will be playing a &#8220;friendly&#8221; against Peru at Soldier Field. A friendly is an\u00a0exhibition\u00a0game but don&#8217;t be mislead by the name. \u00a0 These matches \u00a0are still fiercely competitive since the teams are the &#8220;warming-up&#8221; for international tournaments and experimenting with strategies and substitutions. \u00a0For instance, the World Cup qualifiers \u00a0for World Cup 2010 are as early as this September.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beyond the technical stuff, for the fans, friendlies feel like they&#8217;re the real deal because it is a chance to see your national team play on an international field; friendly or not&#8230;who cares? Football fans come out of the woodwork to see real international football on American soil. \u00a0It is like being transported to somewhere in Europe or Latin America where football is king and fans are fanatic.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/nicole-mexico-796528.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/nicole-mexico-796504.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you can&#8217;t make it to Soldier Field, make your way to your nearest Irish or English pub and start watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro2008.uefa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Euro Cup <\/a> football.  Saturday was the opening match and and everyday through the next three weeks, it is all football&#8230;all the time.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is all about soccer. But, if you really want to sound like you know what you are talking about, especially to Europeans, start calling &#8220;soccer&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;football.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, the Mexican National team (or El Tricolor to the fans) will be playing a &#8220;friendly&#8221; against Peru at Soldier Field. A friendly is an\u00a0exhibition\u00a0game but don&#8217;t be mislead by the name. \u00a0 These matches \u00a0are still fiercely competitive since the teams are the &#8220;warming-up&#8221; for international tournaments and experimenting with strategies and substitutions. \u00a0For instance, the World Cup qualifiers \u00a0for World Cup &#8230;<\/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":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473"}],"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=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}