{"id":395317,"date":"2026-07-12T03:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395317\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T03:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:45:26","slug":"endo-injury-overshadows-2-0-angel-city-victory-over-san-diego-equalizer-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395317\/","title":{"rendered":"Endo injury overshadows 2-0 Angel City victory over San Diego \u2013 Equalizer Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/USATSI_29046298-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit: Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Angel City FC\u2019s 2-0 win over the San Diego Wave on Saturday should have been a cause for celebration. Instead, it was marred by injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long for ninth-place Angel City to take down the NWSL table leaders in San Diego. Maiara Niehues scored in the 17th minute, marking four straight games with a goal for the Brazilian international. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/fa566209\/Ary-Borges?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=equalizersoccer.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-11_fb\">Ary Borges<\/a> finished the job with a goal less than 10 minutes later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But heartbreak ensued just before the halftime whistle when <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/f593cab9\/Jun-Endo?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=equalizersoccer.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-11_fb\">Jun Endo<\/a> went down with what appeared to be a non-contact injury. The Japanese midfielder grabbed her knee and could be heard sobbing before she walked off the pitch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Endo tore her ACL in 2024 and went through a recovery process that lasted more than a year. She returned to the pitch in June 2025 and completed her first full 90 minutes in Angel City\u2019s win over the Orlando Pride on July 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/equalizerWhite-1.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images Angel City FC\u2019s 2-0 win over the San Diego Wave on Saturday should have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-395317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}