{"id":51965,"date":"2025-12-04T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51965\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:23:09","slug":"pittsburgh-holding-celebration-rally-today-for-the-riverhounds-usl-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51965\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh holding celebration rally today for the Riverhounds&#8217; USL Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Riverhounds are hosting a championship rally today to celebrate their first ever USL Championship title.<\/p>\n<p>It was a long wait for the Riverhounds, nearly 30 years in the making, before they won first championship trophy that has been brought home to Pittsburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburgh-riverhounds-usl-championship-fc-tulsa\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Riverhounds defeated FC Tulsa in a penalty shootout last month<\/a> to win the USL Championship title. <\/p>\n<p>The Hounds&#8217; journey to their first-ever title included many dramatic moments, especially throughout the USL Championship Playoffs, which featured penalty shootout wins against Hartford and Detroit before the championship match win against Tulsa.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s defense was really a hallmark of their championship run, not allowing a single goal throughout the entire playoffs, closing out the season with 632 consecutive scoreless minutes.<\/p>\n<p>KDKA&#8217;s Bob Pompeani will be emceeing this afternoon&#8217;s celebration with Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato, and other local leaders all in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Fans will have the chance to meet and celebrate with coaches and players and take pictures with the USL Championship Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grant Street in Downtown Pittsburgh will be closed between Fourth Avenue and Forbes Avenue from around 10:30 a.m. until 2:00 this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Riverhounds are hosting a championship rally today to celebrate their first ever USL Championship title. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,22328],"class_list":["post-51965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-riverhounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51965","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=51965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}