{"id":23603,"date":"2015-07-20T18:11:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=23603"},"modified":"2015-07-20T18:11:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:41:14","slug":"trivandrum-to-host-11th-edition-of-saff-championship-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/trivandrum-to-host-11th-edition-of-saff-championship-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum to host 11th edition of SAFF Championship Cup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trivandrum will play host to host the 11th edition of the South Asian Football Federation Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The All India Football Federation general secretary Kushal Das has confirmed that the upcoming South Asian Football Federation Championships (SAFF Cup) would be played in Trivandrum from December 23, 2015 to January 3, 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The SAFF Championships will be held from December 23 to January 3 in Trivandrum<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The SAFF Championships will be held from December 23 to January 3 in Trivandrum,&#8221; Das said at a media interaction during a reception hosted for head coach Stephen Constantine by British High Commission. &#8220;India will field a full strength senior team,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The SAFF Cup had originally been planned to be played in June 2015, but due to the congested Indian football calendar and the onset of the monsoons, the South Asian Football Federation decided to postpone the competition.<\/p>\n<p>An international friendly is being planned on August 31 against Nepal in Pune ahead of India&#8217;s 2018 World Cup second round qualifying match against Iran on September 8.<\/p>\n<p>In total eight nations would compete for the title. Amongst them defending champions Afghanistan, hosts India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trivandrum will play host to host the 11th edition of the South Asian Football Federation Championships. The All India Football Federation general secretary Kushal Das has confirmed that the upcoming South Asian Football Federation Championships (SAFF Cup) would be played in Trivandrum from December 23, 2015 to January 3, 2016. The SAFF Championships will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-23603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}