{"id":72374,"date":"2020-08-05T22:04:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=72374"},"modified":"2020-08-05T22:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:37:15","slug":"moscows-forest-soccer-field-shared-football-ground-in-ukhrul-manipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/moscows-forest-soccer-field-shared-football-ground-in-ukhrul-manipur\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow’s forest soccer field shared as football ground in Ukhrul, Manipur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> users have posted an image of a football ground surrounded by trees. As per social media claims, the football ground is from Ukhrul in Manipur. A Twitter user @biswajitroy2009 posted<\/a> the viral image along with the text, “The beautiful football ground is not in Europe but in Ukhrul, Manipur, India. Exceptionally beautiful!!!<\/span>” This tweet has over 3,000 likes as of this writing.<\/p>\n

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Similarly, many Facebook users also posted the viral image.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h4>\n

Alt News performed a reverse image search on Google and learned that near-identical pictures have been posted on multiple websites. In fact, Google’s autogenerated keywords prompted ‘russia moscow football ground’.<\/p>\n

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The ground is indeed from Russia. As per a blog<\/a> on Medium, the ground in the viral images shows the Meshchersky Park also know as the Forest Pitch in Moscow. The image on the blog has been shot from a different angle.<\/p>\n

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Alt News found that the viral image was uploaded on Google Maps<\/a> in 2017. As per Google Maps<\/a>, the ground is called Forest Soccer Field and it is less than 2 kilometres away from the Meshchersky Park<\/p>\n

\"\"Alt News also found stock images<\/a> and footage<\/a> of the said football ground on Shutterstock.<\/p>\n

The social media claim that the football ground in the image is in Ukhrul, Manipur is false. It’s located in Moscow, Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several Facebook and Twitter users have posted an image of a football ground surrounded by trees. As per social media claims, the football ground is from Ukhrul in Manipur. A Twitter user @biswajitroy2009 posted the viral image along with the text, “The beautiful football ground is not in Europe but in Ukhrul, Manipur, India. Exceptionally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":72388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-72374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/FI-by-31.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72405,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72374\/revisions\/72405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72374"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=72374"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=72374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}