{"id":5739,"date":"2021-04-05T21:43:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T04:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2021-04-05T21:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T04:43:10","slug":"timbers-open-2021-season-on-tuesday-in-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2021\/04\/05\/timbers-open-2021-season-on-tuesday-in-honduras\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers open 2021 season on Tuesday in Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers open their 2021 season in the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, against CD Marath\u00f3n.&nbsp; The Timbers earned the spot after winning the MLS Is Back Tournament in 2020, and is their first time back in this tournament since the 2016-2017 season when they earned a spot as 2015 MLS Cup Champions.&nbsp; They year they played in the group stage but did not advance.&nbsp; The match will start at 3:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>The return leg of the home-and-home series will be next Tuesday, April 13, in Portland at Providence Park at 5:00pm and will be the first Timbers home match of 2021, and will be the first time fans have been allowed at home games since last March.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of this two-game series takes on the winner of the series between Mexico&#8217;s Club Am\u00e9rica and C.D. Olimpia from Honduras.&nbsp; The Timbers played C.D. Olimpia twice during the Champions League group stage in 2014-2015 and split a pair of matches, but lost the tiebreaker to C.D. Olimpia on away goals and did not advance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/2021-champions-league\/feature\/portland-long-wait-for-ccl-opener-20210405\">FARLEY | The two waits that primed Portland for their Champions League opener<\/a> | Timbers website<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/2021-champions-league\/video\/diego-valeri-interview-20210405?autoplay=true\">The Matchup | Jake Zivin previews Timbers&#8217; CCL game in Honduras against Marath\u00f3n<\/a> | Timbers website<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers open their 2021 season in the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, against CD Marath\u00f3n.&nbsp; The Timbers earned the spot after winning the MLS Is Back Tournament in 2020, and is their first time back in this tournament since the 2016-2017 season when they earned a spot as 2015 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-timbers-mls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ball2020.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5740,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions\/5740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}