{"id":257562,"date":"2026-08-02T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257562\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:12:10","slug":"gallery-philadelphia-union-unified-match-against-atlanta-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257562\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery | Philadelphia Union Unified Match against Atlanta United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Union Unified Team took to the pitch, showing off their skills in a match against Atlanta United FC&#8217;s Unified team at the WSFS Bank Sportsplex on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>2026 Special Olympics Unified All-Star Ian Benson provided the game&#8217;s opening goal as he found the back of the net early in the second half to put a bow on a resounding week which saw him score at MLS All-Star Week. The visitors battled back however, using their depth to score twice to grab the win on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>While the result went in favor of the Five Stripes, the match continue to demonstrate the power of inclusion through Major League Soccer&#8217;s Unified Sports program, a partnership between MLS, Special Olympics North America, and Coca-Cola that brings together athletes with and without intellectual disabilities to compete on the same team.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can watch the entire match replay on YouTube by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8AsCoOTz49I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n        2026 Philadelphia Union Unified Match vs. Atlanta United\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Union Unified Team took to the pitch, showing off their skills in a match against Atlanta&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-257562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257562","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=257562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}