{"id":324665,"date":"2025-12-04T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324665\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:56:13","slug":"finishing-the-job-maryland-mens-soccer-eyes-ncaa-elite-eight-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324665\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing The Job: Maryland Men&#8217;s Soccer Eyes NCAA Elite Eight Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That fight is an extension of the work he\u2019s put in to get his Terps back to a spot of greatness. Two years ago he was watching from the sidelines \u2014 removed for the season by an injury \u2014 as Maryland struggled and failed to win a conference match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, that year wasn\u2019t us,\u201d Ndrenika said. \u201cWe got really unlucky with injuries and penalty misses and all that. We were better than that on paper. Now, to be able to stick it to everyone that said, \u2018Oh, Maryland soccer is done, the game\u2019s outgrown Cirovski, he\u2019s not what he used to be, Maryland\u2019s not what it used to be, etc.\u2019, you use that as fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/umterps.com\/news\/2024\/11\/20\/mens-soccer-as-tough-as-they-come.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">worked his way back<\/a> into the lineup and into a spot to get Maryland in the national conversations that he knows it belongs in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven as a recruit coming into Maryland, you kind of have that expectation that you\u2019ll be at this spot year after year,\u201d Ndrenika said. \u201cSo just that feeling of it eating us alive in those first three years, knowing that we haven\u2019t been able to get there or hold up the standard has kind of been burning in a lot of us. The fact that we get to live it and put it on display this year means the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That fight is an extension of the work he\u2019s put in to get his Terps back to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-324665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}