{"id":426577,"date":"2026-01-22T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426577\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:34:07","slug":"this-soccer-loss-was-so-embarrassing-players-are-footing-the-bill-for-traveling-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426577\/","title":{"rendered":"This soccer loss was so \u2018embarrassing,\u2019 players are footing the bill for traveling fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"USTG6IDZAVC2VDYVBEATNF4HXQ\">MANCHESTER, England \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mancity.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mancity.com\/\">Manchester City\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/soccer\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/oregonlive.com\/soccer\">soccer<\/a> players will refund ticket costs for fans who traveled to Norway for the team\u2019s shocking <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/champions-league-madrid-psg-arsenal-man-city-scores-92e27633e5d3026b422fbca3df384b22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-1 loss<\/a> to tiny Bod\u00f8\/Glimt in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uefa.com\/uefachampionsleague\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.uefa.com\/uefachampionsleague\/\">Champions League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"636ICSDXRRGQZJXOLJDI4ACY6Y\">City striker Erling Haaland apologized immediately after Tuesday\u2019s game for City\u2019s performance, saying it was \u201cembarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CNJWRQOTUJGZVFO5LNHJRA2RGI\">Haaland is in a captains\u2019 group also containing Bernardo Silva, Ruben Dias and Rodri, and they said in a joint statement Wednesday that the players will reimburse the 374 supporters who made the long journey to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bodo-glimt-man-city-champions-league-dca7923bf973318968f2851d8bd4dfb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bod\u00f8<\/a>, which is located <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/champions-league-bodo-glimt-kairat-real-madrid-e0e102d9b622244b5a780dd1635a834c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">north of the Arctic Circle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6EGCFMFREZD3JPCV2FZ2AULZNU\">\u201cOur supporters mean everything to us,\u201d the statement read. \u201cWe know the sacrifice that our fans make when they travel across the world to support us home and away and we will never take it for granted. They are the best fans in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6QMQTPDZSVBKJKYRNACISL2AS4\">\u201cWe also recognize that it was a lot of traveling for the fans who supported us in the freezing cold throughout a difficult evening for us on the pitch. Covering the cost of these tickets for the fans who traveled to Bodo is the least we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JS7MG5JSRNG23FIRX74TLWZGE4\">&#8211;The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, England \u2014 Manchester City\u2019s soccer players will refund ticket costs for fans who traveled to Norway for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-426577","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\/426577","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=426577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}