{"id":321480,"date":"2026-08-14T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321480\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:24:08","slug":"kennebunkports-max-murray-scores-first-pro-goal-with-nyc-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321480\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennebunkport\u2019s Max Murray scores first pro goal with NYC FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK, N.Y. (WABI) &#8211; Kennebunkport\u2019s Max Murray scored his first professional soccer goal with NYC FC on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Murray\u2019s header was his team\u2019s lone goal in a 2-1 loss to Cruz Azul in Leagues Cup play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He spoke about this unforgettable moment of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a dream since I was a kid to be able to score at this level and play at this level. It\u2019s a stepping stone, hopefully, to more to come. Coming to New York, the way of life is completely different. The speed of life is way different. (It\u2019s) just adapting to the speed and physicality of play here, and then making sure you\u2019re taking care of yourself off the field,\u201d said Murray, defender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Murray helped the Vermont Catamounts win their first-ever national men\u2019s soccer championship in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NYC FC finished Leagues Cup play with a 2-1 loss to Necaxa on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Next up, the team opens the MLS regular season by hosting the Philadelphia Union at Yankee Stadium on Sunday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, N.Y. (WABI) &#8211; Kennebunkport\u2019s Max Murray scored his first professional soccer goal with NYC FC on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51309,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-321480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-hannaford","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321480","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=321480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}