{"id":26343,"date":"2024-04-09T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/uefa-releases-statement-on-champions-league-matches-amid-isis-threat\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:04:26","slug":"uefa-releases-statement-on-champions-league-matches-amid-isis-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/uefa-releases-statement-on-champions-league-matches-amid-isis-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA releases statement on Champions League matches amid ISIS threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>UEFA has said the Champions League quarter-final ties scheduled for this week will go ahead as scheduled despite an alleged terror threat.<\/p>\n<p>There are reports that ISIS has issued a threat concerning all four of this week\u2019s ties.<\/p>\n<p>But UEFA has now released a statement on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>It said: \u201cUEFA is aware of alleged terrorist threats made towards this week\u2019s UEFA Champions League matches and is closely liaising with the authorities at the respective venues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll matches are planned to go ahead as scheduled with appropriate security arrangements in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal will host Bayern Munich at the Emirates Stadium in London and Manchester City are away at Real Madrid on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Atletico Madrid welcomes Borussia Dortmund, while Barcelona will be at Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s Parc des Princes.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA releases statement on Champions League matches amid ISIS threat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA has said the Champions League quarter-final ties scheduled for this week will go ahead as scheduled despite an alleged&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1725,13633,15,160,2543],"tags":[1150,13634,1145,180,201,2548],"class_list":["post-26343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league","category-isis","category-news","category-sport","category-uefa","tag-champions","tag-isis","tag-league","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-uefa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}