{"id":191377,"date":"2026-04-09T21:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:23:07","slug":"new-york-city-fc-defender-drew-baiera-to-undergo-surgery-for-ruptured-anterior-cruciate-ligament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191377\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City FC Defender Drew Baiera to Undergo Surgery for Ruptured Anterior Cruciate Ligament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today New York City FC announced that Defender Drew\u00a0Baiera\u00a0will undergo surgery to repair a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the\u00a0left\u00a0knee. The American\u00a0will have surgery at Montefiore Einstein in the coming weeks and will begin rehab\u00a0immediately\u00a0after.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baiera made three appearances for the \u2018Boys in Blue\u2019 this\u00a0season, including his\u00a0MLS debut\u00a0on Matchday 1 against the LA\u00a0Galaxy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Everyone at the Club wishes\u00a0Drew\u00a0all the best in his surgery and recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today New York City FC announced that Defender Drew\u00a0Baiera\u00a0will undergo surgery to repair a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,12,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-191377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191377","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=191377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}