{"id":3873,"date":"2018-03-11T05:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T05:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2018-03-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T05:30:29","slug":"abu-dhabi-set-to-welcome-more-than-two-thousand-visitors-for-manchester-city-abu-dhabi-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/abu-dhabi-set-to-welcome-more-than-two-thousand-visitors-for-manchester-city-abu-dhabi-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi Set To Welcome More Than Two Thousand Visitors For Manchester City Abu Dhabi Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Abu Dhabi will soon welcome an estimated 2,500 people from around the world to the most exciting youth football competition in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-six teams from as far afield as Australia will go head-to-head in the second edition of the Manchester City Abu Dhabi Cup &#8211; a doubling in team entries from last year&#8217;s inaugural tournament.<\/p>\n<p>With just weeks to go until kick-off at Zayed Sports City on March 23-24, event organisers are putting in place final preparations to host players, coaches and families, from across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>At stake is the\u00a0top prize of a trip to the Etihad Campus in Manchester, where youngsters will train and play at the City Football Academy, the state-of-the-art facility used by Manchester City&#8217;s men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the thrilling football on display, the two-day tournament will showcase Abu Dhabi as a world-class tourist destination with Etihad Airways and Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Department of Culture &amp; Tourism as key partners.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3874 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/9ca5b705330df3d2_800x800ar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/9ca5b705330df3d2_800x800ar.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/9ca5b705330df3d2_800x800ar-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/9ca5b705330df3d2_800x800ar-768x493.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Manchester City Abu Dhabi Cup 2018 takes place on 23 -24 March at Zayed Sports City, for further information on please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citycupabudhabi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.citycupabudhabi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi will soon welcome an estimated 2,500 people from around the world to the most exciting youth football competition in the region. Ninety-six teams from as far afield as Australia will go head-to-head in the second edition of the Manchester City Abu Dhabi Cup &#8211; a doubling in team entries from last year&#8217;s inaugural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}