{"id":206404,"date":"2020-04-02T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206404"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:19:59","slug":"coronavirus-uefa-takes-fresh-decision-on-champions-league-europa-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206404","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: UEFA takes fresh decision on Champions League, Europa League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">UEFA on Wednesday, suspended the Champions League, Europa League and Euro 2020 qualifying playoffs indefinitely, as the world continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.<br \/>\nFollowing a meeting two weeks ago, the 55 member associations that make up UEFA, hoped to complete all games by June 30, when player contracts expire.<br \/>\nHowever, today, the decision was made to suspend them indefinitely.<br \/>\nThe Euro 2020 qualifying playoffs and international friendlies planned for June have also been postponed.<br \/>\nThe Champions League and Europa League are suspended at the round-of 16 stage with Atletico Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, RB Leipzig and Atalanta the four sides to have qualified for the quarter-finals.<br \/>\nManchester City vs. Real Madrid, Juventus vs. Lyon, Barcelona vs. Napoli and Bayern Munich vs. Chelsea are the four round-of-16 second-leg ties have yet to be played.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA on Wednesday, suspended the Champions League, Europa League and Euro 2020 qualifying playoffs indefinitely, as the world continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Following a meeting two weeks ago, the 55 member associations that make up UEFA, hoped to complete all games by June 30, when player contracts expire. However, today, the decision was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,14173,2428,8369],"class_list":["post-206404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-sport","tag-uefa-champion-league"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}