New York City FC is pleased to announce that Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez Mercau has been named the Etihad Player of the Month for March.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old has been at the heart of New York City FC\u2019s exciting start to the campaign, stepping up in a new role in the absence of Alonso Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n
Scoring five goals in his first five appearances of the season, he became the first player in New York City FC history to do so.<\/p>\n
March proved particularly fruitful for the former Elche CF playmaker, who recorded four goals and one assist.<\/p>\n
He began his run of form in emphatic fashion during the Club\u2019s 2026 home opener against Orlando City SC, notching a goal and an assist in a 5-0 win.<\/p>\n
He followed that performance with a well-taken brace against the Colorado Rapids, securing a 3-1 win for his team.<\/p>\n
Perhaps his finest moment came in the final game of the month against Inter Miami CF, when a brilliant free kick clipped the underside of the bar to draw New York City FC level in the first half.<\/p>\n
While that game ultimately ended in a narrow defeat, Fern\u00e1ndez Mercau\u2019s individual performances throughout the month left little doubt about his importance to the team, making him a deserving recipient of March\u2019s Player of the Month honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City FC is pleased to announce that Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez Mercau has been named the Etihad Player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71896,9,11,10,12,71895],"class_list":["post-180183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-etihad-airways","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-player-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180183","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=180183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}