{"id":411702,"date":"2026-09-27T01:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411702\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T01:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:26:12","slug":"orlando-citys-justin-ellis-scores-in-usmnt-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411702\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando City’s Justin Ellis scores in USMNT debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States forward Justin Ellis, center, celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal during the first half of an international friendly soccer match against Peru, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo\/Phelan M. Ebenhack)<\/p>\n

SOURCE: Phelan M. Ebenhack<\/p>\n

Orlando City’s Justin Ellis scores in USMNT debut<\/p>\n

\"MikeORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

In his debut with the United States men’s national team, 19-year-old Justin Ellis scored his first goal with the senior squad during Saturday’s 4-1 victory against Peru in an international friendly at Inter.co Stadium. <\/p>\n

The Orlando City forward opened the scoring in the fourth minute after pinging a header off a Gio Reyna free kick. <\/p>\n

Malik Tillman scored in the 66th minute off a penalty kick. <\/p>\n

Eighteen-year-old Julian Hall added a third for the U.S. in the 72nd minute before Sebastian Berhalter scored the fourth goal for Team USA in the 90th minute. <\/p>\n

Former Orlando City defender Alex Freeman also started for the U.S., totaling 77 minutes played for the USMNT. <\/p>\n

Up next for the U.S. is Chile on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States forward Justin Ellis, center, celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal during the first half of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[163285,163287,147467,163286,163288,163289,14237,56398,163283,163290,139,4786,141,140,9621,40791,4494,14249,163284],"class_list":["post-411702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-66th-minute","tag-72nd-minute","tag-co-stadium","tag-eighteen-year-old-julian-hall","tag-fourth-goal","tag-gio-reyna-free-kick","tag-inter","tag-international-friendly","tag-justin-ellis-score","tag-malik-tillman","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-peru","tag-sebastian-berhalter","tag-u-s","tag-usmnt","tag-usmnt-debut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411702","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=411702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}