{"id":806259,"date":"2026-07-16T19:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806259\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:15:10","slug":"mens-soccer-adds-castorina-to-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806259\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Soccer Adds Castorina to Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISONBURG, Va. \u2013 James Madison men&#8217;s soccer has announced the addition of defender <a href=\"https:\/\/jmusports.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/alessandro-castorina\/24411\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24411\" target=\"_blank\">Alessandro Castorina<\/a> to the 2026 roster on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alessandro is a versatile defender who grew up in Italy playing at a very high level,&#8221; said Zazenski. &#8220;He reads the game extremely well and remains calm under pressure. We believe Alessandro will be an impactful defender for our group and can contribute anywhere across the back line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jmusports.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/alessandro-castorina\/24411\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24411\" target=\"_blank\">Alessandro Castorina<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHometown\/Previous School: Castelfidardo, Italy\/Istituto di Istruzione Superiore &#8220;Corridoni \u2013 Campana&#8221;\/Universit\u00e0 degli Studi eCampus<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHeight\/Weight: 6-3\/180 lbs<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPosition: Defense<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nClass: Junior<\/p>\n<p>Castorina will be the 16th member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jmusports.com\/news\/2026\/6\/10\/mens-soccer-dukes-announce-recruiting-class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dukes&#8217; recruiting class<\/a> for this season. JMU kicks off the season at home against Rider (Aug. 20) and Gardner-Webb (Aug. 24) as part of the\u00a0Fairfield by Marriott Invitational.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISONBURG, Va. \u2013 James Madison men&#8217;s soccer has announced the addition of defender Alessandro Castorina to the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-806259","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\/806259","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=806259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}