{"id":27749,"date":"2017-05-20T17:19:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=27749"},"modified":"2017-05-22T14:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:08:48","slug":"kochi-to-host-2017-fifa-u-17-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/kochi-to-host-2017-fifa-u-17-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Kochi&#8217;s Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium Finally Cleared  to host 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football fans in Kerala rejoice!\u00a0 Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in Kochi has finally been given the clearance to host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/u17worldcup\/\">2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup has cleared the stadium to host the marquee event. Jawaharlal Nehru stadium will be one of the six stadiums in the country where FIFA U-17 World Cup will be held. There would be 8 matches to be played in Kochi.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kochi had been under the spotlight after Tournament Director Javier Ceppi expressed his displeasure with the preparations at the stadium and even hinted that they had a plan B in case things didn&#8217;t work out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kochi had been under the spotlight after Tournament Director Javier Ceppi expressed his displeasure with the preparations at the stadium and even hinted that they had a plan B in case things didn&#8217;t work out. Thanks to fast-paced work over the last few months, Javier Ceppi was finally satisfied with the venue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>At this point of time, we are happy to say that Kochi is a World Cup venue. The core infrastructure has been completed and only those which are meant to be completed closer to the tournament are left<\/em>&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The capacity of the stadium will be brought down to 41,748 from 60,000. This decision was made after reviewing the safety arrangements in the stadium, especially in case of emergencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, Ceppi informed that the capacity of the stadium will be brought down to 41,748 from 60,000. This decision was made after reviewing the safety arrangements in the stadium, especially in case of emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Jawahar Lal Nehru stadium attracts close to full capacity during Indian Super League matches of Kerala Blasters. The stadium holds the privilege of having the fifth loudest crowd (128 db) in the world, during ISL 2016 final match where Kerala Blasters played against Atletico de Kolkata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football fans in Kerala rejoice!\u00a0 Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in Kochi has finally been given the clearance to host the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup. The Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup has cleared the stadium to host the marquee event. Jawaharlal Nehru stadium will be one of the six stadiums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[129,423],"class_list":["post-27749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-football","tag-kochi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749"}],"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=27749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27766,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions\/27766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}