{"id":913231,"date":"2026-09-28T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913231\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:40:10","slug":"larin-honoured-with-brampton-key-for-club-and-country-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913231\/","title":{"rendered":"Larin honoured with Brampton Key for club and country achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saints striker <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/cyle-larin-64233\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cyle Larin<\/a> has been awarded the Key to the City of Brampton in recognition of his achievements for club and country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Daily Echo, the 31-year-old received the honour in his Canadian home city on Sunday night while on international duty.<\/p>\n<p>Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown handed over the key at City Hall while wearing a Saints shirt, as hundreds gathered to celebrate his career.<\/p>\n<p>Raised in Brampton, Larin became the first Canadian selected first overall in the MLS SuperDraft before moving to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>He is among <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/canada-132\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>&#8216;s most decorated internationals, with a second-most 32 goals in 95 senior appearances.<\/p>\n<p>He helped Canada qualify for the 2022 World Cup, then played a prominent role when the country hosted the tournament this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Larin thanked family and friends for their guidance and support, and expressed pride in always being able to return to Brampton.<\/p>\n<p>His mother, Patricia, reflected on his childhood and the places football has taken him, noting the city recognises his achievements and expressing her pride.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2018 he has played in T\u00fcrkiye, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands after switching to European football.<\/p>\n<p>He currently leads the Championship scoring charts and was named the division&#8217;s Player of the Month for August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtificial intelligence was used to assist in creating this article based on reporting from the original source quoted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saints striker Cyle Larin has been awarded the Key to the City of Brampton in recognition of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-913231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913231","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=913231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}