{"id":477405,"date":"2024-02-02T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=477405"},"modified":"2024-02-02T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:25:26","slug":"italy-announces-usa-friendlies-ahead-of-euro-2024","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/italy-announces-usa-friendlies-ahead-of-euro-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy announces USA friendlies ahead of Euro 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s national football team is set to play friendly matches against Venezuela and Ecuador in the United States on March 21 and 24, as announced by the federation.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning European champions will face Venezuela, currently ranked 50th in the FIFA rankings, at DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Three days later, Luciano Spalletti&#8217;s team will take on Ecuador at the Red Bull Arena in New York. These matches mark Italy&#8217;s first encounters with the United States since 2005.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Italian National Team have announced they\u2019re coming to play games in New York and Florida \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the FIRST time in 19 years they come to the USA for a match \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 March 21st &#8211; Italy vs Venezuela at DRV PNK Stadium<br \/>\n\u2022 March 24th &#8211; Italy vs Ecuador at Red Bull Arena<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sv9nnfJWQm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Sv9nnfJWQm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Italian Football TV (@IFTVofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IFTVofficial\/status\/1753430870331904419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As Italy prepares to defend its championship title at the upcoming tournament in Germany this summer, the team finds itself in a group alongside Spain, Croatia, and Albania in the so called &#8220;Group of death&#8221; of the European tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s national football team is set to play friendly matches against Venezuela and Ecuador in the United States on March 21 and 24, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":477406,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17082,18393],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18422,18440],"acf":{"announce":"The Azzurri will face Venezuela and Ecuador","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477408,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477405\/revisions\/477408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477405"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=477405"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=477405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}