{"id":274224,"date":"2026-05-17T14:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274224\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:49:22","slug":"american-forward-daryl-dike-will-leave-west-brom-after-4-1-2-injury-plagued-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274224\/","title":{"rendered":"American forward Daryl Dike will leave West Brom after 4 1\/2 injury-plagued seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

American forward Daryl Dike will leave West Bromwich Albion after 4 1\/2 injury-plagued seasons.<\/p>\n

A 25-year-old from Edmund, Oklahoma, Dike scored 10 goals in 64 league matches. The team announced his departure Friday.<\/p>\n

Dike joined the club in January 2022 from Orlando in Major League Soccer. He injured a hamstring in his second appearance<\/a> and missed the rest of the season, then tore a thigh muscle in training<\/a> after the club\u2019s 2022-23 opener <\/p>\n

Dike returned that November and scored seven goals in 23 league matches before he tore his right Achilles<\/a> tendon against Stoke on April 15, 2023.<\/p>\n

He returned the following Jan. 7 when he played the first half in an FA Cup match against Aldershot, then in his fifth game back tore his left Achilles<\/a> tendon on Feb. 10, 2024, against Ipswich.<\/p>\n

Dike came back from that injury on Feb. 15, 2025, against Millwall<\/a> and played 11 league matches that season. He injured his thigh ahead of the 2025-26 season<\/a>, delaying his first match to Oct. 22. He scored two goals in 24 league matches this season.<\/p>\n

He has three goals in 10 appearances with the U.S. national team from 2021-23.<\/p>\n

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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American forward Daryl Dike will leave West Bromwich Albion after 4 1\/2 injury-plagued seasons. A 25-year-old from Edmund,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7607,117174,10191,6790,139,141,140,2062,110,117175],"class_list":["post-274224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-daryl-dike","tag-mls-soccer","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-united-states-national-soccer-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274224","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=274224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}