{"id":375514,"date":"2026-08-19T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375514\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:56:15","slug":"mls-nightmare-how-orlando-city-and-american-scouts-missed-out-on-yan-diomande-as-winger-becomes-real-madrids-new-e125m-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375514\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS nightmare! How Orlando City and American scouts missed out on Yan Diomande as winger becomes Real Madrid&#8217;s new \u20ac125m star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 15, Diomande flew solo to Florida to join DME Academy. Despite speaking no English, he quickly adapted and led semi-pro affiliate AS Frenzi to the 2023 UPSL title, though local MLS side Orlando City infamously passed on the opportunity to recruit him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he did slip through the cracks,&#8221; former coach Todd Eason revealed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourfourtwo.com\/person\/player\/mls-teams-dropped-the-ball-orlando-city-wouldnt-even-drive-45-minutes-to-see-him-how-yan-diomande-went-from-unheralded-high-school-prospect-in-the-usa-to-europes-most-wanted-winger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">FourFourTwo<\/a>. &#8220;I had told some representatives at Orlando City, &#8216;Hey, I&#8217;ve got a kid coming that looks pretty special, and I would love him to come down and train with the B team.&#8217; But they just kept delaying and delaying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was very disappointed that Orlando City wouldn&#8217;t come 45 minutes to watch him or at least take them into camp. I do think MLS teams have probably dropped the ball a lot on some domestic talent that have come through, but every team&#8217;s a little bit different, so you can&#8217;t really speak on all that. Orlando City was the one that I was really disappointed in: you couldn&#8217;t go out of your way to see this kid play, and now you lost your chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 15, Diomande flew solo to Florida to join DME Academy. Despite speaking no English, he quickly adapted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13478,8003,139,4786,141,140,12441,151377],"class_list":["post-375514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-laliga","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-real-madrid","tag-y-diomande"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375514","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=375514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}