{"id":154655,"date":"2012-01-18T15:52:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T11:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=154655"},"modified":"2012-01-18T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T11:52:32","slug":"armenias-national-mens-soccer-team-to-meet-canada-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/18\/armenias-national-mens-soccer-team-to-meet-canada-in-friendly.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s National Men&#8217;s Soccer Team to Meet Canada in Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s national men&#8217;s soccer team will meet Armenia in a friendly Feb. 29 in Cyprus, the Canadian Soccer Association <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/soccer\/story\/?id=385338\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">announced<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The match \u2014 a first-ever meeting between the two countries \u2014 falls on the first FIFA international date of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia had five wins, two ties and three losses in Euro 2012 qualifying, falling just short of a berth in the European tournament scheduled later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Armenia had a very good run before the team was eliminated,&#8221; said Canadian head coach Stephen Hart in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Hart <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/sports\/Canada+play+friendly+against+Armenia\/6010357\/story.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">expects<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> to rely on European-based players for the match.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia is currently ranked 45th in the FIFA world rankings, but failed to reach the upcoming European championship. Canada is ranked 74th.<\/p>\n<p>For Canada, the game will serve as an early tune-up for the third round of regional qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup which begins in June.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s national men&#8217;s soccer team will meet Armenia in a friendly Feb. 29 in Cyprus \u2014 the first ever meeting between the two countries.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14939,16707,14178,19489,14179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}