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The Brooklyn FC men could not have gotten off to a better start as the USL Championship expansion team recorded 1\u20130 victory over Indy Eleven at Maimonides Park in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Juan Carlos Obregon (29) celebrates his goal. (Photo courtesy of Brooklyn FC)<\/p>\n
The Brooklyn FC men could not have gotten off to a better start as the USL Championship expansion team recorded 1\u20130 victory over Indy Eleven at Maimonides Park in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Forward Juan Carlos Obregon scored the team\u2019s first goal when he converted from the penalty spot in the 26th minute. The PK was called after midfielder Peter Mangione was fouled inside the box.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I said to the guys before, it\u2019s just three points, there\u2019s 29 more games, and it\u2019s a landmark for the club,\u201d Brooklyn head coach Marlon LeBlanc said. \u201cIt\u2019s a landmark obviously, for the team. I don\u2019t want to understate what we\u2019ve done here today. We\u2019re, I think we\u2019re picked to finish second to last in the league, and here we are top of the table on day one. And so you love to see it, you\u2019re happy with it, but it\u2019s just three points, and there\u2019s 29 more games to go, plus Cup matches, so we\u2019ll keep it in perspective. I want the guys to enjoy it tonight and have off tomorrow and then just come back and we go back to work again in two days.\u201d<\/p>\n
It could not have been a better game and start for Obregon, a Brooklyn native.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing from Brooklyn, I was once a kid, you know who would go to stadiums and watch soccer matches,\u201d he said. \u201cFortunately, now you know they have a Brooklyn team. You know that they can come in every weekend and and look forward to to watch the game so, you know, just putting myself in their shoes, and I just trying to, you know, be a role model and and inspire them, you know that one day, in the future, they can be in the position that we are now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brooklyn generated several attacking moments throughout the first half, including a shot from Mangione that forced a save from goalkeeper Eric Dick in the 21st minute., and multiple efforts from Obregon outside the box. Indy Eleven responded with chances late in the half through forwards Charlie Sharp and Dylan Sing, but Brooklyn goalkeeper Kayne Rizvanovich made key saves to preserve the 1\u20130 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n
Indy pushed for an equalizer in the second half and produced several dangerous moments, including shots from inside the box and attempts from distance. Rizvanovich delivered multiple crucial saves as Brooklyn\u2019s defense absorbed sustained pressure.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn nearly doubled its lead midway through the second half when a close-range effort was blocked before the follow-up shot sailed over the crossbar. Despite Indy\u2019s late push, Brooklyn held firm.<\/p>\n
Defender Vuk Latinovich as pleased with the overall defensive effort.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we were controlling the game in the first half,\u201d he said. And then they did change it up. They started playing longer balls, which is a strength of theirs. And I thought we dealt with it as best as we could, considering the size difference. But everyone stuck together as a group in the back line, goalie, back four, but even just collectively as a team, we\u2019re fighting for the second balls, every 50-50 we were there. And that\u2019s all you can ask. Everyone just giving their all on the defensive side.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview: The Brooklyn FC men could not have gotten off to a better start as the USL Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,9025,100,99,65011,46834,59076,9,24,63,65012],"class_list":["post-157422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-fc","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-indy-eleven","tag-juan-carlos-obregon","tag-marlon-leblanc","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-vak-latinovich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157422","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=157422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}