{"id":1928385,"date":"2026-08-18T09:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928385"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:54:10","slug":"unc-womens-soccer-match-to-dublin-first-team-trip-abroad-in-15-years-presents-plenty-of-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928385","title":{"rendered":"UNC women\u2019s soccer match to Dublin, first team trip abroad in 15 years, presents plenty of challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 The North Carolina women\u2019s soccer team is headed across the Atlantic next week, and the trip carries plenty of challenges and history along with it. The Tar Heels will travel to Dublin, Ireland, to face Shelbourne FC in an international friendly on Aug. 28 at 2 p.m. ET, a day before the UNC football team takes on TCU in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. The games will be played in stadiums less than four miles apart, with the soccer match at Tolka Park and the football game at Aviva Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/18\/unc-womens-soccer-match-to-dublin-first-team-trip-abroad-in-15-years-presents-plenty-of-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNC women&#8217;s soccer match to Dublin, first team trip abroad in 15 years, presents plenty of challenges<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/18\/unc-womens-soccer-match-to-dublin-first-team-trip-abroad-in-15-years-presents-plenty-of-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 The North Carolina women\u2019s soccer team is headed across the Atlantic next week, and the trip carries plenty of challenges and history along&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928386,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928385\/revisions\/1928386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}