{"id":163828,"date":"2026-02-13T22:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163828\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T22:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:54:07","slug":"former-hearts-forward-jake-keegan-joins-expansion-side-corpus-christi-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163828\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Hearts Forward Jake Keegan Joins Expansion Side Corpus Christi FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another member of the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblazingmusket.com\/tag\/portland-hearts-of-pine\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Hearts of Pine<\/a> squad has landed a new club for 2026, as veteran forward Jake Keegan has signed with USL League One expansion side Corpus Christi FC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi will be Keegan\u2019s sixth League One stop during his 15-year professional career. He previously played for Greenville Triumph SC, Forward Madison FC, One Knoxville SC, and former League One club Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC before spending last season in Portland. The signing also reunites Keegan with former Portland\u00a0Hearts of Pine\u00a0teammate Patrick Langlois.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A consistent\u00a0attacking presence throughout his career, Keegan brings experience and leadership to an expansion team looking to\u00a0establish\u00a0itself. While his highest-scoring seasons may be behind him, the 35-year-old,\u00a0entering his 16th professional season,\u00a0remains\u00a0a respected veteran. Head coach\u00a0\u00c9amon\u00a0Zayed jokes\u00a0that Keegan is \u201cthe Benjamin Button of the USL,\u201d saying his game looks more youthful with age.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now entering his seventh League One campaign, Keegan ranks among the league\u2019s all-time leaders: third in appearances, seventh in minutes played, sixth in goals, and fifth in points. He also brings championship pedigree, having won the League One title with Greenville in 2020 and the USL J\u00e4germeister Cup with Northern Colorado in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move also reunites Keegan with Zayed, who coached him in 2024 at Northern Colorado. In Corpus Christi,\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0expected to take on a leadership role\u00a0similar to\u00a0the one he held with Portland\u2019s young core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another member of the 2025 Portland Hearts of Pine squad has landed a new club for 2026, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-163828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}