{"id":158681,"date":"2018-04-03T04:16:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=158681"},"modified":"2018-04-03T04:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:16:51","slug":"pfl-cup-to-be-named-copa-paulino-alcantara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/03\/pfl-cup-to-be-named-copa-paulino-alcantara\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL Cup to be named Copa Paulino Alcantara"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_158682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158682\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/0-02-06-98d23a818dcb8032eaabbb4dc14e7478288e71b6be7024022bcaac944a21ac79_full_5ac2035cd9c2b2_33360887.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158682\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/0-02-06-98d23a818dcb8032eaabbb4dc14e7478288e71b6be7024022bcaac944a21ac79_full_5ac2035cd9c2b2_33360887.jpg\" alt=\"PFL logo (PNA photo)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PFL logo (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The inaugural Philippine Football League (PFL) Cup is now set.<\/p>\n<p>The board of directors of Liga Futbol Inc. (LFI) approved the implementation of the midseason tournament pitting all the six PFL squads during the board&#8217;s fourth meeting last week.<\/p>\n<p>The new tournament will be named Copa Paulino Alcantara in honor of the Filipino football legend, who starred for Barcelona and the Philippine national team during the 20&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, we know that he is probably one of the best Filipinos who have played the sport. He is a legend not only here but also in Barcelona. It gives us pride to name the Cup after him,&#8221; said Philippine Football Federation president Nonong Araneta, who also acts as the LFI chairman.<\/p>\n<p>A separate tournament from the PFL regular season, the winner of the Copa Paulino Alcantara will earn a seat in next year&#8217;s Asian Football Confederation Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The inaugural Philippine Football League (PFL) Cup is now set. The board of directors of Liga Futbol Inc. (LFI) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":158682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[49234,49232,49233,48023,45509],"class_list":["post-158681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-copa-paulino-alcantara","tag-lfi","tag-liga-futbol-inc","tag-pfl","tag-philippine-football-league","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}