{"id":256593,"date":"2017-07-19T06:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=256593"},"modified":"2017-07-19T06:02:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:02:18","slug":"teen-ayuyus-vs-hualien-fc-womens-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/teen-ayuyus-vs-hualien-fc-womens-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Ayuyus vs Hualien FC Women\u2019s Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_256598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256598\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NMIFA-pix-9-300x200.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-256598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hualien FC Women\u2019s Team, seen here posing for a group photo, will play the CNMI Boys U18 National team in a friendly game this Friday at the Hopwood Middle School Field. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI Boys U18 National Team will play in a friendly game against Hualien FC Women\u2019s Team this Friday at 4pm at the Hopwood Middle School Field.<\/p>\n<p>Hualien is one of the clubs under Chinese-Taipei Football Association and according to Northern Mariana Islands Football Association technical director Michiteru Mita, 10 members of the club used to play for the Chinese-Taipei Women\u2019s National Team. Currently, five of its players are called up to represent Chinese-Taipei in the 2018 AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup Qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Mita added that the squad ruled the 2016 Chinese-Taipei Women\u2019s League and since the competition started in 2014, Hualien has topped the league three times. The squad has been conducting a yearly training camp and had made stops to Guam and Okinawa, Japan in the past before opting to play on Saipan this year.<\/p>\n<p>The visiting team will test the Teen Ayuyus, who are playing a series of friendly and training matches in preparation for its campaign in the AFC U19 Championships Qualifiers. The CNMI youth players are in Group J of the qualifier and will challenge North Korea, Australia, and Hong Kong in the Oct. 31 to Nov. 8 tournament with the venue yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Saipan Soccer School\u2019s 2017 Youth Summer Futsal Tournament will give way to the friendly game between the Teen Ayuyus and Hualien and will have its Friday matches rescheduled for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The same games will be played with Kanoa Football Club 1 taking on SSS in the first match at 3pm in the U12 co-ed division, Saipan Elite battling HK SSS in the 4pm tiff in the boys U16, and F. Marinos taking on Marianas Health Armada in the girls U17 matchup at 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s games, Kanoa FC 1 faces Kanoa FC 2 at 3pm, while Hakone FC and Isamu United collide in the 4pm match, and 4Gives meets NMI U16 at 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Boys U18 National Team will play in a friendly game against Hualien FC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":256598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17586,15361,10767,7003],"class_list":["post-256593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-isamu-united","tag-michiteru-mita","tag-sss","tag-teen-ayuyus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}