{"id":926,"date":"2020-04-26T21:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T21:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=926"},"modified":"2020-04-26T21:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T21:22:32","slug":"update-turkenistan-soccer-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/04\/26\/update-turkenistan-soccer-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Turkenistan Soccer League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following my post a few weeks ago about the Turkmenistan soccer league restarting its season despite the COVID-19 pandemic I decided to do an update on how the league&#8217;s restart went last week. I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/04\/19\/sports\/soccer-its-fans-returns-turkmenistan\/\">a <em>Boston Globe<\/em> article<\/a> that covered how many leagues around the world are currently being affected by the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Per the article the first game the league played since its March 24th suspension came on April 19th. It was a game between Altyn Asyr and Kopetdag in a 20,000-capacity stadium Ashgabat, the capital of the country. The piece says that around 500 people attended the match and that the &#8220;the crowd size was broadly in line with typical domestic league games in Turkmenistan.&#8221; Attendance to the match was free. The match ended in a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>If you recall from the earlier post, Turkmenistan is located right next door to Iran, one of the most infected nations in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following my post a few weeks ago about the Turkmenistan soccer league restarting its season despite the COVID-19 pandemic I decided to do an update on how the league&#8217;s restart went last week. I found a Boston Globe article that covered how many leagues around the world are currently being affected by the virus. Per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}