{"id":479205,"date":"2024-02-28T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479205"},"modified":"2024-02-28T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T14:14:10","slug":"uefa-to-visit-belfast-amid-euro-2028-problems","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/uefa-to-visit-belfast-amid-euro-2028-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA to visit Belfast amid Euro 2028 problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UEFA delegation will visit the city today about concerns over a funding row that has placed doubt over the reconstruction of Casement Park, a stadium that would welcome 5 matches at Euro 2028.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UEFA officials to visit proposed Euro 2028 venue Casement Park in Belfast amid concerns over spiralling \u00a3200m-plus cost of rebuilding derelict Gaelic football ground <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AEeJMRZPDB\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/AEeJMRZPDB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mail Sport (@MailSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MailSport\/status\/1762762390561607796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Great Britain and Ireland were selected to host the Euro 2028, with matches to be played in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>But it is a concern that the rebuilding Casement Park- a Gaelic football stadium that has been closed since 2013- has prompted the football governing body to visit Belfast and expect what is happening and if the venue will be able to host matches in 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>If the reconstruction is not finished on time, the schedule will change, and 5 matches will be played elsewhere within Great Britain but not in Northern Ireland as they don\u2019t have any other venues for such a big tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Windsor Park, 1 of the most famous stadiums in the country, will not welcome matches at Euro 2028 due to the low number of spectators that can watch the match live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UEFA delegation will visit the city today about concerns over a funding row that has placed doubt over the reconstruction of Casement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479206,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21641,17368],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[22714,21642,408],"acf":{"announce":"The football governing body will visit the city amid the Euro 2028 row.","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\/479205"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479208,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479205\/revisions\/479208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479205"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479205"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}