{"id":8742,"date":"2023-11-15T17:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T11:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/15\/friendly-match-between-belgium-and-serbia-switched-from-brussels-to-leuven-after-heavy-rain\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T17:13:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T11:43:16","slug":"friendly-match-between-belgium-and-serbia-switched-from-brussels-to-leuven-after-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/15\/friendly-match-between-belgium-and-serbia-switched-from-brussels-to-leuven-after-heavy-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly match between Belgium and Serbia switched from Brussels to Leuven after heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium\u2019s friendly against Serbia on Wednesday has been switched to Leuven after heavy rain made the field at Brussels\u2019 King Baudouin stadium unplayable.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian football federation said the match will be held instead at Den Dreef Stadium in Leuven with no fans allowed.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/manchester-united-ceo-richard-arnold-to-leave-club-ineos-takeover-jim-ratcliffe\/article67535972.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Arnold steps down as Manchester United CEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the short-term impossibility of organising the match safely in the presence of supporters, the match will be played without an audience,\u201d the federation said.<\/p>\n<p>Spectators who had bought tickets will get a refund.<\/p>\n<p>After taking on Serbia, Belgium is set to face Azerbaijan in a qualifying game for next year\u2019s European Championship on Sunday at King Baudouin Stadium. The federation said the location for that Group F match remains the same \u201cuntil further notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Belgium has already qualified for next year\u2019s European Championship in Germany.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium has already qualified for next year\u2019s European Championship in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}