{"id":432344,"date":"2026-10-19T21:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432344\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T21:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:10:07","slug":"orlando-citys-antoine-griezmann-named-player-of-the-matchday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432344\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando City&#8217;s Antoine Griezmann named Player of the Matchday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Griezmann\u2019s second MLS Player of the Matchday Award, after earning the honor on Matchday 22. He&#8217;s the first French player to secure the honor multiple times in a season since Thierry Henry\u2019s five with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/red-bull-new-york\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull New York<\/a> in 2012.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Griezmann and the Lions will look to build on their form when they host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/new-york-city-football-club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City FC<\/a> on Saturday at Inter.co Stadium (7:30 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/orlando-city-vs-new-york-city-football-club\/umc.cse.2nb6rjz9gjy2atfpvnypbifcx?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.4000%2Ctvs.sbd.7000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple TV<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The MLS Player of the Matchday is selected each matchday of the regular season through both media and fan voting in a process conducted by MLS Communications. A panel of journalists from the North American Soccer Reporters (NASR) comprises 75 percent of the vote, while an Instagram fan vote represents the remaining 25 percent of voting. NASR consists of members of print, television, radio and online media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is Griezmann\u2019s second MLS Player of the Matchday Award, after earning the honor on Matchday 22. He&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47194,139,4786,141,140,168793,11746,4959],"class_list":["post-432344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-antoine-griezmann","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlvsdc-10-17-2026","tag-player-of-the-matchday","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432344","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=432344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}