BROOKLYN, N.Y. \u2013 Brooklyn Football Club announced on Thursday the club had signed midfielders Tommy McNamara and Peter Mangione ahead of the club\u2019s first season in the USL Championship. The transactions are pending league and federation approval.<\/p>\n
A New York native, McNamara brings more than a decade of top-flight professional experience and a track record of production as a two-way midfielder. He has made 219 regular-season appearances in Major League Soccer, recording 22 goals and 30 assists across stops with Chivas USA, New York City FC, the Houston Dynamo and the New England Revolution. He also helped the Revolution win the 2021 Supporters\u2019 Shield.<\/p>\n
McNamara joins Brooklyn FC after most recently playing for fellow USL Championship club Las Vegas Lights FC, where he made 10 appearances in the past campaign, logging a passing accuracy rate of 90.6 percent on 309 completed passes and notching eight chances created.<\/p>\n
\u201cTommy sets the standard for what we want to build from day one,\u201d said Brooklyn FC men\u2019s Head Coach Marlon LeBlanc. \u201cHe competes, he will connect the group, and he understands what it takes to prepare every week in this league. He is a true pro, and we want his edge, his leadership, and his New York pride at the center of our team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Known for his versatility and work rate, McNamara has played multiple roles across midfield during his career, including as a central midfielder and wide attacker. During four seasons with New York City FC, he became a reliable contributor in the club\u2019s early years, producing 13 goals and 14 assists in league play.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is special. I grew up in this area, and now I get to help launch a new club in the biggest city in the country,\u201d McNamara said. \u201cBrooklyn has its own identity, and you can feel the ambition behind this project. I want to be part of setting the culture and helping this team hit the ground running in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mangione joins Brooklyn from the FC Cincinnati organization after turning pro with FC Cincinnati 2 in MLS NEXT Pro in the 2024 campaign. The 24-year-old recorded four goals and 10 assists for FCC 2 in 59 appearances across all competitions, and this past campaign completed 738 passes at an 83 percent accuracy rate while recording 38 chances created and six assists.<\/p>\n
A native of Hunt Valley, Md., Mangione built his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 at Penn State, where he recorded 31 goals and 16 assists in 67 appearances and earned Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year honors in 2021 and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, N.Y. \u2013 Brooklyn Football Club announced on Thursday the club had signed midfielders Tommy McNamara and Peter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,12,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-101367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}