{"id":2733,"date":"2008-07-28T21:28:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T04:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2008-07-28T21:35:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T04:35:48","slug":"2008-isf-european-championship-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2733","title":{"rendered":"2008 ISF European Championship Gets Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurofastpitch2008.dk\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.eurofastpitch2008.dk\/~\/media\/Specialforbund\/DBaSoF\/Topbanner\/EM2008_web_topbanner%20jpg.ashx\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(click banner for official tournament website)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsfeatures.com\/index.php?section=pp&#038;action=show&#038;id=47382\">PRESS RELEASES FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTS MOVEMENT<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 28, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SOFTBALL EURO EVENT STARTS TODAY IN DENMARK<br \/>\n(July 28-Aug 2)<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n The 2008 European Championship Men \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A\u00e2\u20ac\u009d gets underway today in Copenhagen, Denmark.  The six-day fast pitch tournament will see the following eight countries participating: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Belgium<br \/>\nCroatia<br \/>\nthe Czech Republic<br \/>\nDenmark<br \/>\nGreat Britain<br \/>\nIsrael<br \/>\nthe Netherlands<br \/>\nSlovakia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Czech Republic is the defending champion.  This event will qualify the European participants for next year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ISF XII Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Championship.  For more information visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurofastpitch2008.dk\">www.eurofastpitch2008.dk<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce R. Wawrzyniak, Director of Communications<br \/>\nInternational Softball Federation (ISF)<br \/>\n1900 So. Park Road<br \/>\nPlant City, FL 33563<br \/>\nUSA<br \/>\np. (1-813) 864-0100, ext. 229<br \/>\nc. (1-813) 453-8762<br \/>\nf.  (1-813) 864-0105<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalsoftball.com\">www.internationalsoftball.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click banner for official tournament website) PRESS RELEASES FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTS MOVEMENT July 28, 2008 SOFTBALL EURO EVENT STARTS TODAY IN DENMARK (July 28-Aug 2) The 2008 European Championship Men \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A\u00e2\u20ac\u009d gets underway today in Copenhagen, Denmark. The six-day fast pitch tournament will see the following eight countries participating: Belgium Croatia the Czech Republic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}