ORLANDO, Fla. (June\u00a024, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City Academy midfielder Caleb Trombino has been named to the Eastern Conference roster for the 2026 MLS NEXT All-Star Game, it was\u00a0announced today. The event will take place in\u00a0Matthews, North Carolina,\u00a0on July 27,\u00a0as part of Major League Soccer All-Star Week, bringing together top talent from across MLS NEXT.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trombino, 16, has made\u00a0nine\u00a0appearances, including\u00a0two\u00a0starts, for Orlando City B during the 2026 MLS NEXT Pro campaign, with his\u00a0OCB\u00a0debut and first professional start coming on March 2, 2026, against Huntsville City FC. He later recorded his first professional goal on March 14, 2026, scoring the game-winning goal against Carolina Core FC after entering as a second-half substitute.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the Academy level, Trombino\u00a0has logged\u00a0over\u00a01,700 minutes\u00a0across 21 matches, scoring six goals during the 2025-26 MLS NEXT campaign. He was also called up to the U.S. U-16 Men\u2019s Youth National Team in November 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Forty-four of the top MLS NEXT players from the 2025-26 season have been selected to compete in the MLS NEXT All-Star Game presented by Allstate during MLS All-Star Week. The East vs. West matchup will take place on July 27 at 7:30 p.m. ET at Mecklenburg County Sportsplex in Matthews, North Carolina, and will be streamed live on MLS’ YouTube channel and\u00a0MLSsoccer.com<\/a>. As part of their\u00a0selection, players will be integrated into MLS All-Star Week programming,\u00a0participating\u00a0in a series of league events and activities leading up to the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trombino joins a growing list of Orlando City Academy products to earn MLS NEXT All-Star Game honors, including Gustavo Caraballo and Dylan Judelson, who featured in last year\u2019s game; Colin Guske and Juan Rojas, who participated in 2024; Tahir Reid-Brown, who played in 2023; and Favian Loyola and Alejandro Granados, who represented the club in 2022. Loyola earned MVP honors in the 2022 game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (June\u00a024, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City Academy midfielder Caleb Trombino has been named to the Eastern Conference roster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3412,128420,115,139,121150,18312,141,140],"class_list":["post-318261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-academy","tag-caleb-trombino","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city-academy","tag-orlando-city-b","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318261","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=318261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}