{"id":33420,"date":"2025-09-11T05:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/usyk-will-play-charity-football-with-legends-promotion-of-his-foundation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T05:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:41:25","slug":"usyk-will-play-charity-football-with-legends-promotion-of-his-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/usyk-will-play-charity-football-with-legends-promotion-of-his-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk will play charity football with legends: Promotion of his foundation!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0813%2Fr1531175_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe world heavyweight champion, Oleksandr Usyk, will participate in a charity football match in Portugal.\n\nThe &#8220;Legends Charity Game&#8221; event will take place on September 15th at the Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade, in Lisbon.\n\nThis match will feature the participation of former Premier League stars, including Edwin van der Sar, Petr Cech, John Terry, and Michael Owen.\n\nThe presence of Carles Puyol, Alessandro Del Piero, Henrik Larsson, Cafu, Roberto Carlos and Kak\u00e1 is also expected.\n\nWhen Oleksandr Usyk asks to play, the answer is yes.\n\nUsyk will take this opportunity to promote the Usyk Foundation, his charity that provides support to Ukrainian communities and the Ukrainian army.\n\nUsyk is expected to play at least the first 10 minutes of the match, being closely monitored as he regains his physical form after his victory over Daniel Dubois in July.\n\nAfter defeating Dubois, Usyk received a 90-day medical extension from the WBO.\n\nThis gives you more time to decide on your next move.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Usyk has not been prescribed bed rest; he is allowed to participate in charity sporting events and perform moderate physical activity.<\/p><cite>Sergey Lapin, CEO of Usyk&#8217;s team<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nUsyk presented medical evidence to the WBO, explaining his inability to immediately return to training, and was granted the extension earlier this week.\n\nNow he will have to face Joseph Parker or Fabio Wardley, who will fight in London on October 25, or relinquish the WBO title.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world heavyweight champion, Oleksandr Usyk, will participate in a charity football match in Portugal. The &#8220;Legends Charity Game&#8221; event will take place on September 15th at the Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade, in Lisbon. This match will feature the participation of former Premier League stars, including Edwin van der Sar, Petr Cech, John Terry, and Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,3705,5257,969],"class_list":{"0":"post-33420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-charity-match","10":"tag-oleksandr-usyk","11":"tag-portugal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}