{"id":166252,"date":"2026-02-23T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166252\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:12:10","slug":"orlando-city-in-talks-to-sign-antoine-griezmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166252\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando City &#8216;in talks&#8217; to sign Antoine Griezmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando City are reportedly &#8216;in talks&#8217; to sign Atl\u00e9tico Madrid star\u00a0Antoine Griezmann, according to The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>While there is no agreement as of yet, the 34-year-old is said to be Orlando&#8217;s main &#8216;focus&#8217; as they look to fill their open Designated Player spot.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Griezmann has long been linked with a move to MLS, with many believing he would eventually land in Los Angeles for a reunion with former France teammate Hugo Lloris at LAFC.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman is the all-time leading scorer for Atl\u00e9tico Madrid with more than 200 goals in all competitions, and would be yet another in a long list of world-renowned superstars to make the move to North America in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando City kicked off their 2026 MLS campaign with disappointing home defeat at the hands of Red Bull New York, but should they wrap up a deal for\u00a0Griezmann in the coming days it will surely give them a boost in the early stretches of the new season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando City are reportedly &#8216;in talks&#8217; to sign Atl\u00e9tico Madrid star\u00a0Antoine Griezmann, according to The Athletic. While there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47194,47195,78436,63686,139,4786,141,140,49823],"class_list":{"0":"post-166252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-antoine-griezmann","9":"tag-atletico-madrid","10":"tag-hugo-lloris","11":"tag-lafc","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-city","14":"tag-orlando-headlines","15":"tag-orlando-news","16":"tag-red-bull-new-york"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}