{"id":216240,"date":"2026-04-02T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216240\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:24:11","slug":"major-league-moment-fc-naples-to-face-mls-orlando-city-collier-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216240\/","title":{"rendered":"Major League moment: FC Naples to face MLS’ Orlando City | Collier County"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southwest Florida’s professional soccer team, FC Naples, is ready to tackle a franchise first, a match against a Major League Soccer opponent.<\/p>\n

FC Naples will host Orlando City SC on April 14 or 15 in the third round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.<\/p>\n

FC Naples is in just its second season of existence after a record-breaking debut in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The team competes in the regular season as part of USL League One, which is the considered the third division of professional soccer leagues in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. Open Cup is a single-elimination tournament open to both professional teams across multiple leagues, in addition to\u00a0amateur clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southwest Florida’s professional soccer team, FC Naples, is ready to tackle a franchise first, a match against a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7353,98537,115,139,141,140,110],"class_list":["post-216240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-collier","tag-fc_naples","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216240","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=216240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}