{"id":164031,"date":"2026-04-12T19:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:20:16","slug":"philadelphia-union-find-joy-and-relief-from-first-win-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164031\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union find &#8220;joy and relief&#8221; from first win of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a long time coming for head coach Bradley Carnell&#8217;s side, which won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/philadelphia-union-win-2025-supporters-shield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Supporters&#8217; Shield<\/a> with a league-best 66 points during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today was the performance of a team, and I&#8217;m really happy for them,&#8221; said Carnell postgame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in a tough moment as a club, as players and coaches and staff and everyone. But it shows what it means now, going down to the locker room and seeing the joy and relief on faces. I know it&#8217;s only three points, but it&#8217;s a step in the right direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a long time coming for head coach Bradley Carnell&#8217;s side, which won the 2025 Supporters&#8217; Shield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11896,73646,69,71,70,10227,10226],"class_list":{"0":"post-164031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-match-reaction","9":"tag-mtlvsphi-04-11-2026","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-philadelphia-union","14":"tag-sendtonews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164031","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=164031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}