{"id":248372,"date":"2020-03-14T06:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T10:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=248372"},"modified":"2020-03-14T06:54:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T10:54:55","slug":"pfl-postpones-new-season-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/14\/pfl-postpones-new-season-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL postpones new season due to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248373\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/field-grass-sport-foot-50713.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248373\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/field-grass-sport-foot-50713.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/field-grass-sport-foot-50713.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/field-grass-sport-foot-50713-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/field-grass-sport-foot-50713-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/field-grass-sport-foot-50713-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The PFL was the latest club sports league to announce the postponement of matches due to Covid-19. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippines Football League (PFL) moved the opening of its upcoming season a month later due to the continuous scare of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) and Philippines Football League (PFL) have decided to postpone the Philippines Football League brought to you by Qatar Airways kick-off originally scheduled on 21 March 2020 to 18 April 2020 tentatively,&#8221; the PFF, which operates the PFL, said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The development came a day after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered a community quarantine around Metro Manila as the number of people tested positive for Covid-19 in the country surges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Utmost priority must be accorded to the safety, health, and welfare of the players, coaching staff, match officials, sponsors, and others who are involved in the organization of the matches,&#8221; the PFF said.<\/p>\n<p>The PFL was the latest club sports league to announce the postponement of matches due to Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Basketball Association, the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball, and the National Basketball League have already postponed their games earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Rugby Football Union also announced the postponement of the JML Luzon Cup, the PRFU Premiership Shield, and the Santos Knight Frank Junior Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Like the PFL, the PRFU looks to resume action on April 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippines Football League (PFL) moved the opening of its upcoming season a month later due to the continuous &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248372","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248374,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248372\/revisions\/248374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}