{"id":393519,"date":"2026-01-07T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393519\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:38:11","slug":"soccer-day-unites-cretan-youth-at-44th-cretan-convention-the-greek-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393519\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer day unites Cretan youth at 44th Cretan Convention \u2013 The Greek Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cretan Youth of Australia and New Zealand held its annual soccer sports day on Monday, January 5, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/greekherald.com.au\/community\/next-generation-of-cretans-come-together-at-sydney-convention-youth-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">44th Cretan Federation Convention in Sydney, <\/a>bringing together young participants from across the country for a day of competition and camaraderie.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 200 youth took part in the event, which was hosted at the Senior Campus of Saint Spyridon College in Maroubra, Sydney. <\/p>\n<p>Teams from across Australia competed throughout the day under the supervision of referees Anna Kyriakou and Michael Arvanitagis.<\/p>\n<p>Following a series of closely contested matches, a Sydney team claimed victory in the under-12 division, while Tasmania, the defending champions, once again secured the title in the over-13 division.<\/p>\n<p>The annual soccer tournament, which began decades ago, remains a key feature of the Cretan Federation Convention, complementing its broader cultural, educational, faith-based and sporting program.<\/p>\n<p>*All photos by Location Shots Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cretan Youth of Australia and New Zealand held its annual soccer sports day on Monday, January 5,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-393519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}