Talk about a dream start.<\/p>\n
Just four minutes into his US men’s national team<\/a> debut, Orlando City<\/a> homegrown Justin Ellis<\/a> opened the scoring against Peru on Saturday at Inter.co Stadium \u2013 his home field at the club level.<\/p>\n The breakthrough came from a Gio Reyna free kick, as the 19-year-old met Reyna’s delivery and flicked his header inside the far post to give the USMNT an early 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n It was a storybook moment for one of MLS’s brightest rising young talents.<\/p>\n Ellis earned his first senior USMNT call-up after a breakout 2026 campaign with Orlando, recording 3g\/11a across all competitions entering the September\/October international window.<\/p>\n Ellis signed a first-team homegrown deal with Orlando in February after progressing through the club’s academy and Orlando City B. He was previously named the 2025 U-19 MLS NEXT MVP and also won the Golden Boot at the 2025 Generation adidas Cup with a tournament-high six goals as Orlando captured the U-18 title.<\/p>\n Four minutes into his first senior international appearance, in the stadium he calls home, Ellis scores his first USMNT goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talk about a dream start. Just four minutes into his US men’s national team debut, Orlando City homegrown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7706,139,4786,141,140,4959,4571,163250],"class_list":["post-411594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-justin-ellis","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sendtonews","tag-united-states","tag-usavsper-09-26-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411594","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=411594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}