{"id":135243,"date":"2026-02-16T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135243\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:57:07","slug":"new-york-city-fc-2026-season-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135243\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City FC 2026 Season Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      Team Snapshot<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/new-york-city-football-club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City FC<\/a> made a surprise run to the 2025 Eastern Conference Final, capping a strong first season under head coach Pascal Jansen.<\/p>\n<p>\n      Key Signings<\/p>\n<p>Kai Trewin: The Australian international defender\/midfielder was acquired from A-League side Melbourne City FC. He could feature at this summer&#8217;s World Cup alongside midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/aiden-o-neill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aiden O&#8217;Neill<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Snapshot New York City FC made a surprise run to the 2025 Eastern Conference Final, capping a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57479,57480,9,24,14242,55,54,56,57481,12687],"class_list":{"0":"post-135243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-lavsnyc-02-22-2026","9":"tag-mls-is-back","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-football-club","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-season-preview","17":"tag-sendtonews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135243","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=135243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}