{"id":297426,"date":"2026-06-05T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297426\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:10:11","slug":"fc-naples-acquires-defender-jaylen-yearwood-via-transfer-from-orlando-city-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297426\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Naples acquires defender Jaylen Yearwood via transfer from Orlando City B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAPLES, Fla. \u2013 FC Naples announced on Friday the acquisition via transfer of defender Jaylen Yearwood from Orlando City B of MLS NEXT Pro. The transaction is pending league and federation approval. <\/p>\n<p>Yearwood joins FC Naples after beginning his professional career within the Orlando City SC this season. Selected with the 14th overall pick in the First Round of the 2026 MLS SuperDraft, Yearwood arrives in Southwest Florida having previously recorded 10 appearances for OCB this season. <\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old completed 300 passes at a 91.5% accuracy rate while defensively he recorded 25 clearances and 32 recoveries and won 28 duels at a 66.7 percent success rate. Earlier this year, Yearwood made his senior national team debut for Trinidad and Tobago in an international exhibition against Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>During his college career, Yearwood played with the North Florida Ospreys for three years. With the Ospreys, he won the Atlantic Sun Conference Defensive Player of the Year award and was named First Team All-ASUN in 2025. He also helped lead UNF to back-to-back ASUN Championships and consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAPLES, Fla. \u2013 FC Naples announced on Friday the acquisition via transfer of defender Jaylen Yearwood from Orlando&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-297426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297426","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=297426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}