{"id":56021,"date":"2026-07-05T15:14:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/newport-county-to-host-italian-giants-roma-in-pre-season\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:14:41","slug":"newport-county-to-host-italian-giants-roma-in-pre-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/newport-county-to-host-italian-giants-roma-in-pre-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport County to host Italian giants Roma in pre-season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Newport County have confirmed a home pre-season friendly against Italian giants Roma.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Exiles will face the Serie A side on Tuesday, 4 August at Rodney Parade in a high-profile warm-up for their 2026-27 League Two campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roma are heading to Wales at the end of July for an eight-day training camp and will face Cardiff City in a friendly on Saturday, 1 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">County face AFC Wimbledon in the EFL Cup in their first competitive game of the season on 8 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They host Rochdale a week later on Saturday, 15 August in their opening match of the League Two campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Todd was appointed County&#8217;s caretaker manager following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cy8w4yqq7e9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">departure of Christian Fuchs last month.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp3xxw302d8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newport County have confirmed a home pre-season friendly against Italian giants Roma. The Exiles will face the Serie A side on Tuesday, 4 August at Rodney Parade in a high-profile warm-up for their 2026-27 League Two campaign. Roma are heading to Wales at the end of July for an eight-day training camp and will face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[986,8127,4425,3041,6956,15840,15839],"class_list":["post-56021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-county","tag-giants","tag-host","tag-italian","tag-newport","tag-preseason","tag-roma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56023,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56021\/revisions\/56023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}