{"id":240203,"date":"2026-05-22T03:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240203\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:47:41","slug":"nycfc-midfielder-maxi-moralez-suffers-torn-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240203\/","title":{"rendered":"NYCFC midfielder Maxi Moralez suffers torn ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City FC<\/a> midfielder Maxi Moralez<\/a> will undergo surgery in the coming weeks to repair a ruptured left ACL, the club announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

In addition, defender Kevin O’Toole<\/a> underwent successful surgery on his groin and abdomen last week and has begun his rehabilitation with the club’s medical staff.<\/p>\n

Moralez suffered the non-contact injury during NYCFC’s Matchday 14 Hudson River Derby at Red Bull New York<\/a>, exiting on a stretcher after going down in the 35th minute.<\/p>\n

After previously suffering a torn right ACL<\/a> in 2023, he could miss the remainder of the 2026 season due to the typical ACL recovery timeline.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old Argentine No. 10 is one of the most decorated players in club history, contributing 41g\/85a in a club-record 280 appearances across two separate stints. He was named an MLS All-Star and Best XI selection in 2019.<\/p>\n

With NYCFC, Moralez helped the club to their first-ever MLS Cup title in 2021 and a Campeones Cup<\/a> crown in 2022. This season, he made 15 appearances, posting 1g\/9a across all competitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

O’Toole is in his fifth season with NYCFC and has started all 10 of his MLS appearances this season, recording one assist. For his career, O’Toole has made 111 all-competition appearances for the club, recording 2g\/4a.<\/p>\n

As they near the 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a> break, NYCFC sit fifth on the Eastern Conference table in their second year under head coach Pascal Jansen (19 points; 5W-5L-4D record).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City FC midfielder Maxi Moralez will undergo surgery in the coming weeks to repair a ruptured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28243,32242,9,24,14242,55,54,56,12687],"class_list":["post-240203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-kevin-otoole","tag-maximiliano-moralez","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-football-club","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240203","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=240203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}