{"id":10853,"date":"2018-02-09T03:16:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=10853"},"modified":"2018-02-09T03:16:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:16:19","slug":"chelsea-play-perth-glory-pre-season-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/09\/chelsea-play-perth-glory-pre-season-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea to play Perth Glory in pre-season friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea will play Australian side Perth Glory in a pre-season friendly ahead of the 2018-19 season, the English Premier League club announced on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/news\/latest-news\/2018\/02\/counting-down-to-pre-season-in-perth.html\"> their official website<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The date for the friendly has been confirmed for Monday, July 23 at Optus Stadium, which has a capacity of more than 60,000.<\/p>\n<p>The match will be\u00a0Chelsea&#8217;s first visit to Perth since 1974. In 2015, the Blues arrived in Australia for the pre-season friendly, where they beat Sydney FC 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are sitting fourth in the English Premier League title race, 19 points adrift of leaders Manchester City. Meanwhile, Perth Glory lie eighth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/10\/06\/league-trial-yellow-red-cards-misbehaving-coaches\/\">10-team A-League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea will play Australian side Perth Glory in a pre-season friendly ahead of the 2018-19 season, the English Premier League club announced on their official website on Thursday. The date for the friendly has been confirmed for Monday, July 23 at Optus Stadium, which has a capacity of more than 60,000. The match will be\u00a0Chelsea&#8217;s first visit to Perth since 1974. In 2015, the Blues arrived in Australia for the pre-season friendly, where they beat Sydney FC 1-0. Chelsea are sitting fourth in the English Premier League title race, 19 points adrift of leaders Manchester City. Meanwhile, Perth Glory lie eighth in the 10-team A-League. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[380,197,416,217],"class_list":["post-10853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-a-league","tag-chelsea","tag-friendly","tag-perth-glory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}