{"id":1003560,"date":"2022-02-25T10:37:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T10:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/st-petersburg-is-stripped-of-champions-league-final-after-russias-invasion-of-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T10:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T10:37:48","slug":"st-petersburg-is-stripped-of-champions-league-final-after-russias-invasion-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/st-petersburg-is-stripped-of-champions-league-final-after-russias-invasion-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"St Petersburg is Stripped Of Champions League Final After Russia&#8217;s Invasion Of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saint Petersburg has been stripped of the Champions League final in the wake of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA confirmed European club football\u2019s showpiece occasion on Saturday, May 28 will be moved to Paris from the Gazprom Arena in the Russian city after an emergency meeting of its executive committee was convened this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday with troops attacking the country from the north, east and south, inflicting enormous damage to military installations and civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Four Premier League clubs remain in the competition at the last-16 stage with Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City taking leads into next month\u2019s second leg ties and Manchester United level with Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Paris\u2019 Stade de France, which last held the Champions League final 16 years ago when Barcelona beat Arsenal, will now play host to the European showpiece at the end of the football season.<\/p>\n<p>Sportsmail reported on Thursday that West Ham\u2019s owners would have been interested in staging the final at their 62,500-capacity home.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Saint Petersburg has been stripped of the Champions League final in the wake of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. UEFA confirmed European club football\u2019s showpiece occasion on Saturday, May 28 will be moved to Paris from the Gazprom Arena in the Russian city after an emergency meeting of its executive committee was convened this morning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1003562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[774,1450,5437,674,5338,5438,5439,5440],"class_list":{"0":"post-1003560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-champions","9":"tag-final","10":"tag-invasion","11":"tag-league","12":"tag-petersburg","13":"tag-russias","14":"tag-stripped","15":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}