{"id":117845,"date":"2026-02-19T07:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117845\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:02:22","slug":"philadelphia-union-academy-host-elite-clubs-for-snow-bowl-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117845\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union Academy host elite clubs for Snow Bowl 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/philadelphia-union\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Union<\/a> Academy hosted the inaugural Snow Bowl tournament from Feb. 9-14, welcoming top clubs from across Europe and North America to the WSFS Bank Sportsplex in Chester, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The competition featured U-15, U-16, and U-18 age groups, bringing global powerhouses such as Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund, S.L. Benfica, and Newcastle United to compete against the Union.<\/p>\n<p>The Snow Bowl helped the Union\u2019s oldest academy teams prepare for the 2026 Generation adidas Cup, which will be held from March 27 to April 4 at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Winners from the Snow Bowl are below:<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Union claimed the U-18 title with a 1-0 victory over Denmark\u2019s Lyngby Boldklub. Gunnar Graham supplied the game-winning goal and Philly&#8217;s Tyler Gladstone was named U-18 MVP.<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese powerhouse SL Benfica captured the U-16 title with a 2-0 victory over Philadelphia Union. Despite the defeat, Philadelphia\u2019s Timoni Gbalajobi finished as the U-16 Golden Boot winner.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s CF Monterrey lifted the U-15 trophy with a dramatic 4-3 comeback victory over England\u2019s Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can learn more about the Snow Bowl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philadelphiaunion.com\/academy\/news\/snow-bowl-2026-delivers-championship-drama-international-showcase-and-emerging-stars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Union Academy hosted the inaugural Snow Bowl tournament from Feb. 9-14, welcoming top clubs from across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,10227,10226],"class_list":["post-117845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-union","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}