{"id":842755,"date":"2025-04-22T13:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/italian-soccer-league-serie-a-postpones-matches-due-to-death-of-pope-francis\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:12:13","slug":"italian-soccer-league-serie-a-postpones-matches-due-to-death-of-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/italian-soccer-league-serie-a-postpones-matches-due-to-death-of-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian soccer league Serie A postpones matches due to death of Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\" comments=\"[object Object]\" overlaytype=\"article\" social_image=\"[object Object]\" show_advertisements=\"true\" data-v-6f01d178 data-v-2cc5ffd6>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" data-v-6f01d178>The Italian soccer league postponed its games scheduled for Monday following the death of Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" data-v-6f01d178>Francis, a lifelong soccer fan, died at 88.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" data-v-6f01d178>The Serie A games scheduled for Monday \u2014 a national holiday in Italy \u2014 were: Torino-Udinese; Cagliari-Fiorentina; Genoa-Lazio; and Parma-Juventus.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" data-v-6f01d178>A date for the matches to be made up was not immediately announced.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" data-v-6f01d178><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" data-v-6f01d178><i>Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr data-v-6f01d178>\n<div data-v-6f01d178>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Soccer\" src=\"https:\/\/b.fssta.com\/uploads\/application\/soccer\/competition-logos\/FIFAMensWorldCup2022.vresize.160.160.medium.0.png\" alt=\"Soccer FIFA Men's World Cup\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Get more from FIFA Men&#8217;s World Cup<\/span> <span>Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr data-v-6f01d178>  <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/soccer\/italian-soccer-league-serie-postpones-matches-due-death-pope-francis\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Luz Pingree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer The Italian soccer league postponed its games scheduled for Monday following the death of Pope Francis. Francis, a lifelong soccer fan, died at 88. The Serie A games scheduled for Monday \u2014 a national holiday in Italy \u2014 were: Torino-Udinese; Cagliari-Fiorentina; Genoa-Lazio; and Parma-Juventus. A date for the matches to be made up was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":842756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27294,2005],"tags":[16235,5532],"class_list":{"0":"post-842755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italian","8":"category-soccer","9":"tag-italian","10":"tag-soccer"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}