{"id":749005,"date":"2026-06-20T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749005\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:39:07","slug":"alex-freeman-son-of-nfl-star-is-making-his-own-name-on-soccers-biggest-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749005\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Freeman, son of NFL star, is making his own name on soccer\u2019s biggest stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GYKM5G7VYZGONN6RSB73R2P3GQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Nearly 30 years before the prodigious young soccer player made his mark on this World Cup, the Freeman name flashed across a Seattle scoreboard after a productive day in another kind of football.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JECZTKC7WVDJFM4WT2S5HQRMTQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Antonio Freeman caught two touchdown passes for the Green Bay Packers against the Seattle Seahawks in September 1996, an early step in a season that would end with a Super Bowl title. His name was stitched across the back of NFL jerseys, announced in stadiums and splashed across \u201cSportsCenter\u201d highlights \u2014 tied to production, promise and the possibility of a championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 30 years before the prodigious young soccer player made his mark on this World Cup, the Freeman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-749005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}