{"id":310189,"date":"2026-07-30T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310189\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:56:09","slug":"shes-back-for-more-markovic-returns-to-brooklyn-fc-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310189\/","title":{"rendered":"SHE&#8217;S BACK FOR MORE: Markovic returns to Brooklyn FC Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tOverview:<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn FC Women have renewed midfielder Kristina (Kiki) Markovic for the Gainbridge Super League 2026 fall season, pending league and federation approval, it was announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BROOKLYN, N.Y. \u2014 Brooklyn FC Women have renewed midfielder Kristina (Kiki) Markovic for the Gainbridge Super League 2026 fall season, pending league and federation approval, it was announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During her first season with Brooklyn FC, Markovic appeared in 10 matches, with three starts and 223 minutes. Before joining Brooklyn FC, she played for FC Rapperswil\u2011Jona in the Swiss Women\u2019s Super League, where she made 36 league appearances and scored five goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn a 14-match season, you need midfielders who can do more than one job, and Kiki is one of those,\u201d Brooklyn FC women\u2019s head coach Alex Smith said in a statement. \u201cShe has European and international experience behind her. My job now is to put her in the positions that showcase the quality she has.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Markovic joined Brooklyn FC in August 2025 before the Super League Season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional roster transactions and announcements will be released in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontrowsoccer.com\/author\/michael\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MichaelLewis-12920a-150x150.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\"  alt=\"Michael Lewis\" class=\"avatar avatar-120 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-120 alignnone photo\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 28 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published <a href=\"https:\/\/frontrow.soccer\/alivekicking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALIVE AND KICKING<\/a> The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/frontrow.soccer\/alivekicking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontrowsoccer.com\/author\/michael\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Michael Lewis\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview: Brooklyn FC Women have renewed midfielder Kristina (Kiki) Markovic for the Gainbridge Super League 2026 fall season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[55509,98,71674,100,99,19078,117328,9,24,63,8694],"class_list":["post-310189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-alex-smith","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-fc-women","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-gainbridge-super-league","tag-kiki-markovic","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-usl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310189","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=310189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}