{"id":354436,"date":"2025-12-19T01:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354436\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:20:23","slug":"austin-fc-drafts-cayelli-in-third-round-of-2026-mls-superdraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354436\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin FC Drafts Cayelli in Third Round of 2026 MLS SuperDraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 PHILADELPHIA \u2013 Major League Soccer (MLS) had its 2026 SuperDraft on Thursday afternoon, with <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/patrick-cayelli\/24764\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24764\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Cayelli<\/a> of the University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s soccer team being drafted in the third round.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAustin FC drafted midfielder Cayelli in the third round with the 77th pick of the draft.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe senior had a stellar fourth-year campaign, earning unanimous First Team All-Ivy for the first time in his career, after leading the Ivy League in assists (8), goals (9), shots on goal (25), and points (26). Cayelli&#8217;s 26 points are a career-high, headed by a six-point performance and hat trick in Penn&#8217;s 6-1 win over William &amp; Mary from October and 11 total points in Ivy League play. Cayelli also worked hard off the field, earning Academic All-Ivy and CSC Academic All-District for his performance in the classroom.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCayelli ended his Penn career starting in 43 of 60 games with 11 goals, 17 assists, and 39 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; PHILADELPHIA \u2013 Major League Soccer (MLS) had its 2026 SuperDraft on Thursday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-354436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354436","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=354436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}