{"id":15780,"date":"2017-08-26T12:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T07:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15780"},"modified":"2017-08-26T12:36:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T07:36:43","slug":"world-xi-hockey-squad-to-play-two-match-series-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15780","title":{"rendered":"World XI hockey squad to play two-match series in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD AUG 26 (TNS):<\/strong> A World XI hockey squad containing Olympic and world champion players has agreed to tour Pakistan for a two-match series against the national team later this year, a Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) official told.<\/p>\n<p>PHF secretary Shahbaz Ahmed Sr said the hockey World XI has agreed to visit Pakistan in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe World XI side will include Olympic and world champion players,\u201d Shahbaz said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PHF secretary, the World XI outfit would play two matches in Pakistan, first in Lahore on Nov 21 and second in Karachi (Nov 22).<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question, Shahbaz said names of the World XI players had not been finalized yet.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, speaking about Pakistan Hockey League (PHL), Shahbaz said a meeting to discuss the developments concerning the league had been called on Saturday in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully the matters regarding the PHL will be finalized after Eid-ul-Azha,\u201d he said, adding the PHF was doing all-out efforts for reviving the national game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD AUG 26 (TNS): A World XI hockey squad containing Olympic and world champion players has agreed to tour Pakistan for a two-match series against the national team later this year, a Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) official told. PHF secretary Shahbaz Ahmed Sr said the hockey World XI has agreed to visit Pakistan in November. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23,20],"tags":[118,589,108],"class_list":["post-15780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","category-sports","tag-islamabad","tag-national","tag-tns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15793,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780\/revisions\/15793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}