Philadelphia Union announced today they have signed Union II players Giovanny Sequera and Malik Jakupovic to short-term agreements ahead of Wednesday night’s Concacaf Champions Cup Round of 16 match at Club Am\u00e9rica.<\/p>\n
The duo were added previously added to the club’s Concacaf Competition roster in Round One and made apperances in the second leg of their series against Defence Force F.C.<\/p>\n
Per the 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup Regulations<\/a>, each roster can have a maximum of 35 players. If a club’s roster does not include the maximum then additional players may be added provided the maximum players is not exceeded. In addition, per the 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 This marks the third call-up for both Union II players with Sequera having signed a short term agreement for the Union’s MLS match against the San Jose Earthquakes on March 7th while Jakupovic’s other call-up was for the first leg of the CCC Round of 16 against Club Am\u00e9rica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union announced today they have signed Union II players Giovanny Sequera and Malik Jakupovic to short-term agreements…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64576,61431,62378,69,71,70,14742],"class_list":["post-142513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-amevsphi-03-18-2026","tag-giovanny-sequera-sequera","tag-malik-jakupovic","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-transaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142513","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=142513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}