{"id":2634,"date":"2018-07-13T10:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T06:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2018-07-13T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T06:33:01","slug":"theresa-may-wants-to-host-event-for-england-team-following-world-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/07\/13\/theresa-may-wants-to-host-event-for-england-team-following-world-cup-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Theresa May wants to host event for England team following World Cup exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>British Prime Minister Theresa May would like to host an event for the English football team after they reached the World Cup semi-finals for the first time in 28 years, her spokeswoman said on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/croatia-vs-england\/385230\">Defeat on Wednesday night to Croatia<\/a>\u00a0means England&#8217;s wait for their first World Cup final since 1966 continues.<\/p>\n<p>But May would like to honour Gareth Southgate&#8217;s squad for reaching the semi-finals of the global showpiece for the first time since 1990.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/17\/05\/16-9\/20\/3Gduepif0T1UGY8H4xMDoxOjA4MTsiGN_3966015.jpg?20170529225016\" alt=\"Theresa May intends to speak to the FA about hosting an event for England\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theresa May intends to speak to the FA about hosting an event for England<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would certainly like to host a reception for the England football team, who did so well in Russia, and that is something that we are going to talk to the FA (Football Association) about,&#8221; her spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>England will play their final game of the tournament on Saturday when they face Belgium in the third\/fourth place playoff in Saint Petersburg&#8217;s Krestovsky Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Skysports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May would like to host an event for the English football team after they reached the World Cup semi-finals for the first time in 28 years, her spokeswoman said on Thursday. Defeat on Wednesday night to Croatia\u00a0means England&#8217;s wait for their first World Cup final since 1966 continues. But May would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}