{"id":229052,"date":"2026-04-12T22:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229052\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:51:19","slug":"fc-naples-to-host-orlando-city-in-historic-u-s-open-cup-match-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229052\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Naples to host Orlando City in historic U.S. Open Cup match | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAPLES, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 FC Naples turns its attention to the biggest match in club history.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the club hosts Orlando City in the U.S. Open Cup, its first-ever match against an MLS opponent. Tickets for the match are sold out.<\/p>\n<p>FC Naples comes into Wednesday&#8217;s match with momentum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/sports\/fc-naples-beats-sarasota-2-0-in-rivalry-match-at-paradise-sports-complex\/article_e3f9813a-cc91-40d5-a478-f0cb84509c7b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">after a win over Sarasota<\/a> on Saturday. Now the club gets a chance to test itself against top-level competition on home turf, with Orlando City coming to Naples.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"FC Naples hosts Orlando City in historic U.S. Open Cup match\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Head coach Matt Poland said the opportunity goes well beyond the players on the field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To have them face us and have to treat us as equals for 90 minutes is so massive for not only the players, but for the organization and for the community and the fans,&#8221; Poland said.<\/p>\n<p>FC Naples hosts Orlando City on Wednesday night at Paradise Sports Complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAPLES, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 FC Naples turns its attention to the biggest match in club history. On Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7353,115,139,141,140,110],"class_list":["post-229052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-collier","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\/229052","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=229052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}