{"id":350635,"date":"2026-07-24T00:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350635\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:57:13","slug":"antoine-griezmann-scores-in-mls-debut-for-orlando-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350635\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Griezmann Scores In MLS Debut For Orlando City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\"><a class=\"entity\">Antoine Griezmann<\/a> scored in his <a class=\"entity\">MLS<\/a> debut, <a class=\"entity\">David Brekalo<\/a> and <a class=\"entity\">Ivan Angulo<\/a> each scored his first goal of the season, and Orlando City beat the <a class=\"entity\">San Jose Earthquakes<\/a> 4-0 on Wednesday night in the first game for both teams since before the World Cup break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Griezmann was acquired in March from Atl\u00e9tico Madrid \u2014 where he is the club\u2019s all-time leading scorer with 211 goals and 97 assists in 488 matches \u2014 with the understanding that the 35-year-old forward would report to Orlando after the conclusion of the La Liga season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\"><a class=\"entity\">Braian Ojeda<\/a> added a goal for Orlando (5-9-2). <a class=\"entity\">Maxime Crepeau<\/a> had seven saves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Brekalo was left unmarked and flicked in a header off a perfectly placed free kick played into the center of the area by <a class=\"entity\">Eduard Atuesta<\/a> to open the scoring in the seventh minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Atuesta pushed a pass to Angulo, who faced no pressure as he approached the penalty box and ripped a low shot that skipped past Gunn to make it 2-0 in the 29th minute. It was Angulo&#8217;s first goal since Oct. 5, 2024 against Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\"><a class=\"entity\">Angus Gunn<\/a> made his MLS debut and had three saves for the Earthquakes (10-4-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Gunn, a 30-year-old Scotland international, signed with San Jose on July 8 after he was released by the Premier League&#8217;s Nottingham Forest FC. The Earthquakes traded goalkeeper <a class=\"entity\">Daniel De Sousa<\/a> Britto \u2014 known simply as &#8220;Daniel&#8221; \u2014 to Dallas on July 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Daniel had 14 shutouts in 78 regular-season starts across three-plus seasons with San Jose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antoine Griezmann scored in his MLS debut, David Brekalo and Ivan Angulo each scored his first goal of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47194,15297,5692,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-350635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-antoine-griezmann","tag-france","tag-mls","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350635","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=350635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}