{"id":409515,"date":"2026-07-23T15:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409515\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:17:33","slug":"orlando-citys-antoine-griezmann-scores-in-mls-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409515\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando City&#8217;s Antoine Griezmann scores in MLS debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Antoine Griezmann scored in his MLS debut, David Brekalo and Iv\u00e1n Angulo each scored their first goal of the season, and Orlando City beat the San Jose Earthquakes 4-0 on Wednesday night in the first game for both teams since before the World Cup break.<\/p>\n<p>Griezmann was acquired in March from Atl\u00e9tico Madrid \u2014 where he is the club\u2019s all-time leading scorer with 211 goals and 97 assists in 488 matches \u2014 with the understanding that the 35-year-old forward would report to Orlando after the conclusion of the La Liga season.<\/p>\n<p>Braian Ojeda added a goal for Orlando (5-9-2). Maxime Cr\u00e9peau had seven saves.<\/p>\n<p>Brekalo was left unmarked and flicked in a header off a perfectly placed free kick played into the center of the area by Eduard Atuesta to open the scoring in the seventh minute.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Justin Ellis #22 and Antoine Griezmann #7 of Orlando City celebrate after winning during the MLS match between San Jose Earthquakes and Orlando City SC at PayPal Park on Wednesday in San Jose, California. (Brandon Vallance\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1891\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2287264297.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"15223706\" \/>Justin Ellis #22 and Antoine Griezmann #7 of Orlando City celebrate after winning during the MLS match between San Jose Earthquakes and Orlando City SC at PayPal Park on Wednesday in San Jose, California. (Brandon Vallance\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Atuesta pushed a pass to Angulo, who faced no pressure as he approached the penalty box and ripped a low shot that skipped past Gunn to make it 2-0 in the 29th minute. It was Angulo\u2019s first goal since Oct. 5, 2024, against Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Angus Gunn made his MLS debut and had three saves for the Earthquakes (10-4-2).<\/p>\n<p>Gunn, a 30-year-old Scotland international, signed with San Jose on July 8 after he was released by the Premier League\u2019s Nottingham Forest FC. The Earthquakes traded goalkeeper Daniel De Sousa Britto \u2014 known simply as \u201cDaniel\u201d \u2014 to Dallas on July 9.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel had 14 shutouts in 78 regular-season starts across three-plus seasons with San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Antoine Griezmann scored in his MLS debut, David Brekalo and Iv\u00e1n Angulo each&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[553,611,43949,88,90,89,1083,87815,127],"class_list":["post-409515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-florida","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando-city-sc","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-soccer","tag-social-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409515","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=409515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}