{"id":411530,"date":"2026-07-25T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411530\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:46:11","slug":"san-jose-earthquakes-forward-nonso-adimabua-undergoes-successful-sports-hernia-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411530\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes Forward Nonso Adimabua Undergoes Successful Sports Hernia Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014\u00a0San Jose Earthquakes\u00a0forward Nonso\u00a0Adimabua\u00a0has undergone\u00a0successful surgery\u00a0to repair a sports hernia\u00a0(athletic\u00a0pubalgia)\u00a0and will\u00a0subsequently\u00a0be placed on the injured list.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adimabua, 25,\u00a0is in his first Major League Soccer campaign after\u00a0signing\u00a0with\u00a0the Earthquakes&#8217; First Team\u00a0following a productive preseason, logging\u00a0three appearances in all competitions (two starts).\u00a0He\u00a0made his first start in league play on May 13 on the road against Seattle Sounders FC and recorded his first MLS\u00a0assist\u00a0in the second minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a prolific collegiate career at the University of San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, along with a spell in USL League Two with San Francisco Glens SC,\u00a0Adimabua\u00a0delivered a breakout\u00a0season\u00a0with San Jose\u2019s MLS NEXT Pro side\u00a0in 2025, setting a club single-season record with 19 total goal contributions (13g\/6a).\u00a0A native of Asaba, Nigeria,\u00a0Adimabua\u00a0began his youth career in Florida at Morningside High School.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Earthquakes host the LA Galaxy on Saturday, July 25, at Stanford Stadium in the 105th California Clasico\u00a0across\u00a0all competitions,\u00a0presented by El Camino Health. Kickoff is slated for 7:30 p.m. PT with the match to be broadcast on Apple TV (English\/Spanish) as well as via local radio on KSFO 810 AM (English) and La\u00a0Kaliente\u00a01370 AM (Spanish).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014\u00a0San Jose Earthquakes\u00a0forward Nonso\u00a0Adimabua\u00a0has undergone\u00a0successful surgery\u00a0to repair a sports hernia\u00a0(athletic\u00a0pubalgia)\u00a0and will\u00a0subsequently\u00a0be placed on the injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-411530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411530","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=411530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}