{"id":160525,"date":"2026-04-08T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160525\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:34:07","slug":"philadelphia-union-sign-nathan-harriel-to-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160525\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union sign Nathan Harriel to contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Extension<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/philadelphia-union\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Union<\/a> have signed homegrown defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/nathan-harriel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Harriel<\/a> to a contract extension through the 2028\u201329 season with an option for 2029\u201330, the club announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/us-men-s-national-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a> international has contributed 9g\/5a in 148 appearances across all competitions for Philadelphia. He joined the Union&#8217;s first team ahead of the 2021 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Harriel has three USMNT caps. He also featured at the 2024 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nate has established himself as an essential piece of our backline over the past five years,&#8221; said Jon Scheer, Philadelphia&#8217;s interim sporting director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His versatility, competitiveness, and dedication have been vital to the team\u2019s success, and his emergence as a leader both on and off the field has been significant. We look forward to his continued impact and the important role he will play in the years ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/transfer-tracker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS Transfer Tracker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Extension The Philadelphia Union have signed homegrown defender Nathan Harriel to a contract extension through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24719,69,71,70,10227,10226,26410],"class_list":{"0":"post-160525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-nathan-harriel","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-philadelphia-union","13":"tag-sendtonews","14":"tag-transfer-tracker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160525","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=160525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}