{"id":910,"date":"2017-07-07T07:43:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T07:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/?p=910"},"modified":"2017-07-19T16:48:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T16:48:46","slug":"2017-global-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/2017-global-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Global Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-913\" src=\"http:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/CNT-Maribor-Slovenia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/CNT-Maribor-Slovenia.jpg 750w, https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/CNT-Maribor-Slovenia-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s our favorite time of year&#8230; the 13th annual European Global\u00a0Challenge will return to Pula, Croatia on July 11th \u2013 14th, 2017 to host u17 and u22 divisions\u00a0from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got 10 teams from the US currently on pre-tours in Europe. The\u00a0<a class=\"validating\" href=\"http:\/\/bringitusa.com\/gc2017\/college-national-team\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/bringitusa.com\/gc2017\/college-national-team\/\">USA\u00a0Volleyball College National Team<\/a>\u00a0is warming up for the tournament at the Dras Center in <a href=\"http:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/weve-got-a-lot-of-love-for-maribor-slovenia\/\">Maribor, Slovenia<\/a> with matches against\u00a0federation teams from Slovenia and the Czech Republic.\u00a0Meanwhile the\u00a0<a class=\"validating\" href=\"http:\/\/bringitusa.com\/gc2017\/mountain-west\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/bringitusa.com\/gc2017\/mountain-west\/\">Mountain\u00a0West Conference All Star team<\/a>\u00a0is in Budapest, Hungary preparing for the Global Challenge with friendly matches against the Hungary Junior National Team and Senior National Teams.<\/p>\n<p>On July 10th\u00a0the tournament will kick off with an opening ceremony for all international teams at Pula&#8217;s town center near the edge of the Adriatic Sea. Competition starts July 11th.\u00a0You\u2019ll find complete <a class=\"validating\" href=\"http:\/\/bringitusa.com\/gc2017\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/bringitusa.com\/gc2017\/\">team rosters and schedule updates on the tournament website here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0And if you&#8217;re tuning in from afar, you&#8217;ll be able to <a class=\"validating\" href=\"http:\/\/bringitusa.com\/gc2017\/livestream\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/bringitusa.com\/gc2017\/livestream\/\">live stream matches here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s our favorite time of year&#8230; the 13th annual European Global\u00a0Challenge will return to Pula, Croatia on July 11th \u2013 14th, 2017 to host u17 and u22 divisions\u00a0from around the world. We&#8217;ve got 10 teams from the US currently on pre-tours in Europe. The\u00a0USA\u00a0Volleyball College National Team\u00a0is warming up for the tournament at the Dras [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,30],"tags":[43,12,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-best-of-bip","8":"category-global-challenge","9":"tag-college-national-team","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-global-challenge","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bringitusa.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}