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Brooklyn FC on Wednesday announced the return of forward Jessica Garziano for the Gainbridge Super League 2026 fall season, pending league and federation approval.<\/p>\n
BROOKLYN, N.Y. \u2013 Brooklyn FC on Wednesday announced the return of forward Jessica Garziano for the Gainbridge Super League 2026 fall season, pending league and federation approval.<\/p>\n
Garziano has been with Brooklyn FC since the start of the team. She signed in June 2024, before the club\u2019s inaugural campaign, and scored the first goal in club history at Spokane Zephyr FC on Sept. 8, 2024.<\/p>\n
Later that month, she opened the scoring in Brooklyn\u2019s first home win, a 2-0 result against Dallas Trinity FC. That stretch made her the league\u2019s most decorated player for the month, as she was named Player of the Month for September 2024, selected to the September team of the month, and awarded September goal of the month. They were the first individual league honors in club history.<\/p>\n
Garziano closed the 2024-25 season as Brooklyn\u2019s leading scorer with six goals across 28 appearances and 27 starts, ranking among the league\u2019s top 12 in goals and shots. Her 29 chances created placed her 10th leaguewide.<\/p>\n
The 2025-26 Gainbridge Super League season showed her range in contributions. Garziano logged 2,032 minutes across 27 matches, finishing tied for sixth in the league with five assists and eighth in chances created with 34. She also won 22 tackles at a 66.7 percent success rate and added 25 clearances and 17 interceptions.<\/p>\n
\u201cJess is one of the first names you hear when you start learning about this club, and it\u2019s easy to understand why,\u201d Brooklyn FC women\u2019s head coach Alex Smith said in a statement. \u201cShe scored the first goal in Brooklyn\u2019s history and then spent last season turning herself into a player who does a lot more than score. That kind of player makes a group better, and I\u2019m glad she\u2019s staying.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Melville, N.Y. native joined Brooklyn from the Long Island Rough Riders of the USL W League. At St. John\u2019s University, she became the fourth player in team history to earn All-American honors, recorded 10 goals and 11 assists, and was named Big East midfielder of the year.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn FC Women open the Fall season on Aug. 15 on the road against Lexington SC at 7 p.m. ET, followed by the team\u2019s home opener against DC Power on Friday, Aug. 21 at 7:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview: Brooklyn FC on Wednesday announced the return of forward Jessica Garziano for the Gainbridge Super League 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[55509,98,9025,100,99,19078,83273,116924,9,24,63,12668,8694],"class_list":["post-309050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-alex-smith","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-fc","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-gainbridge-super-league","tag-jessica-garziano","tag-long-island-rough-riders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-st-johns-university","tag-usl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309050","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=309050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}