{"id":824768,"date":"2026-07-25T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824768\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:11:11","slug":"talented-defender-nelson-joins-wolfpack-mens-soccer-ahead-of-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824768\/","title":{"rendered":"Talented defender Nelson joins WolfPack men&#8217;s soccer ahead of 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>COACH JOHN ANTULOV<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Nelson is a solid defender that can play all along the backline. He&#8217;s a very quick player, has great technical ability and can play multiple positions so we are looking forward to him coming in and being able to work towards playing time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ON HOW THE SIGNING CAME ABOUT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;We worked with Faly FC to get in touch with Nelson. Current member of the WolfPack <a href=\"https:\/\/gowolfpack.ca\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/kaleb-voth\/1710\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1710\" target=\"_blank\">Kaleb Voth<\/a> is also from that club so we are looking forward to woking with Faly to bring their talented players to Kamloops.&#8221; \u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nNELSON IDRIS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew TRU was the perfect fit for me when I visited the campus and got to meet the coaching staff. The competitive soccer program combined with the great academic opportunities made it an easy decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started playing soccer when I was 11 years old, but my journey really took off when I moved to Canada. That&#8217;s when I started to take the sport seriously, push myself to play at a high level, and focus on reaching the university stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; COACH JOHN ANTULOV &#8220;Nelson is a solid defender that can play all along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-824768","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\/824768","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=824768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}