{"id":135234,"date":"2026-03-11T07:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135234\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:55:06","slug":"philadelphia-union-sign-malik-jakupovic-to-short-term-agreement-for-tonights-concacaf-champions-cup-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135234\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union Sign Malik Jakupovic To Short-Term Agreement for tonight&#8217;s Concacaf Champions Cup Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Union announced today they have signed Union II forwardMalik Jakupovic to a short-term agreement ahead of tonight&#8217;s Concacaf Champions Cup match against Club Am\u00e9rica.<\/p>\n<p>Per the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.concacaf.com\/champions-cup\/regulations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 Concacaf Champions Cup Regulations<\/a>, each roster can have a maximum of 35 players. If a club&#8217;s roster does not include the maximum then additional players may be added provided the maximum players is not exceeded. In addition, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/about\/roster-rules-and-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 MLS Roster Rules and Regulations<\/a>, may sign a player, age 25 or younger during the league season, from its affiliate (MLS NEXT Pro) to a maximum of four Short-Term Agreements (up to four-day contracts) each season (maximum of 16 days).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union announced today they have signed Union II forwardMalik Jakupovic to a short-term agreement ahead of tonight&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62378,69,71,70,62367,14742],"class_list":["post-135234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-malik-jakupovic","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-phivsame-03-10-2026","tag-transaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135234","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=135234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}