{"id":51253,"date":"2025-11-25T03:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51253\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T03:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:23:12","slug":"new-york-city-honors-gotham-fcs-championship-win-with-procession-and-key-to-the-city-hartford-courant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51253\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City honors Gotham FC\u2019s championship win with procession and key to the city \u2013 Hartford Courant"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York City on Monday celebrated Gotham FC\u2019s capture of its second<\/a> National Women\u2019s Soccer League championship in three years, with a procession for the players in Manhattan and the presentation of the keys to the city.<\/p>\n

Members of the team were greeted by cheering fans as they traveled to City Hall on top of double-decker buses on a stretch of Broadway<\/a> where champion athletes and other notable figures have long been feted with ticker-tape parades<\/p>\n

The procession culminated with a ceremony where Mayor Eric Adams handed out large gold keys to the players.<\/p>\n

Rose Lavelle, whose goal in the 80th minute was the only score in Saturday night\u2019s 1-0 win over the Washington Spirit, thanked her teammates, the fans, and the team\u2019s leadership and staff for making their championship dream a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re the ones on the field who get to do the job, but to win a championship, it literally takes every last person\u201d in the organization, Lavelle said as the crowd repeatedly screamed \u201cMVP!\u201d referencing her winning that honor in the title match.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you get to do what you love with people you love, it makes the journey much sweeter,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Led by Coach Juan Carlos Amoros, Gotham had defied the odds to make the final, going on the road twice to defeat the top-seeded Kansas City Current 2-1 in the quarterfinals and the defending champions, the Orlando Pride, 1-0, in the semis.<\/p>\n

Gotham also became the first eighth-seed to win the NWSL Championship. In 2023, when there were only six playoff spots, Gotham became the first sixth-seed to lift the trophy.<\/p>\n

The team, which represents both New York and New Jersey, plays its home games at Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, N.J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York City on Monday celebrated Gotham FC\u2019s capture of its second National Women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-51253","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-ny","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51253","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=51253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}