{"id":93262,"date":"2025-12-23T02:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93262\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T02:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:37:20","slug":"orlando-pride-pair-mace-and-rafaelle-announce-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93262\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Pride pair Mace and Rafaelle announce engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 22, 2025, 4:01 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Orlando Pride defenders Hailie Mace\u00a0and Rafaelle Souza have announced their engagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The couple posted a video on Instagram of Rafaelle proposing to Mace in the former&#8217;s home country of Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Am I half Brazilian now?&#8221; Mace jokingly wrote in the caption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After spending the past five seasons with the Kansas City Current,\u00a0Mace joined Orlando earlier this month as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Mace was a regular on the Current&#8217;s back line for several years, earning NWSL Best XI Second Team honors for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The 28-year-old has earned nine caps for the U.S. women&#8217;s national team, most recently appearing in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_ig_bl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSk6JsZDMBV\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"view Instagram post: \"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Rafaelle joined the Pride in 2023 and has become a regular starter in the team&#8217;s back line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The 34-year-old recently signed a three-year contract extension, keeping her with Orlando through 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Rafaelle has also been a regular with Brazil for a decade, reaching 100 caps last year. She has represented Brazil at two Women\u2019s World Cups (2015 and 2023) and three Olympics (2016, 2020 and 2024).<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 22, 2025, 4:01 p.m. ET Orlando Pride defenders Hailie Mace\u00a0and Rafaelle Souza have announced their engagement. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31,139,141,140,49836,26088,49838,2380,19720,343,403,26089,96,2267,399,300,49837,401,34],"class_list":["post-93262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-accessfree","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sstssportsnwsl","tag-sstsnnwsl","tag-tagbrazil","tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","tag-taginstagram","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagnational-womens-soccer-league","tag-tagorlando-pride","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagpeople-society","tag-tagsoccer","tag-tagsports-news","tag-taguswnt","tag-tagwomens-sports","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93262","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=93262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}