{"id":386980,"date":"2026-07-26T12:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:53:13","slug":"spurs-star-victor-wembanyama-spotted-playing-soccer-in-the-houston-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386980\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs star Victor Wembanyama spotted playing soccer in the Houston area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KATY, Texas \u2014 Fans expecting a casual pickup soccer game in Katy on Friday got an unexpected teammate: San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama.<\/p>\n<p>KHOU 11 viewer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_houston_roofer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0Heber Garcia<\/a> captured video of the NBA standout playing pickup soccer Friday night at Katy Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>According to Garcia, who was at the pickup game, Wembanyama spent about two hours playing through the Matchday Soccer app at Katy Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said the NBA star blended right in with everyone else on the field, celebrating teammates&#8217; goals, setting up scoring opportunities with several assists and scoring roughly half a dozen goals of his own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was great to our Katy community,&#8221; Garcia said. &#8220;Very cordial, very nice to us, just like another guy playing soccer on a Friday night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the games wrapped up, Garcia said Wembanyama stayed to take photos and videos with fans.<\/p>\n<p>While Wembanyama is known for his dominance on the basketball court, Garcia said he proved to be surprisingly talented on the soccer field as well.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KATY, Texas \u2014 Fans expecting a casual pickup soccer game in Katy on Friday got an unexpected teammate:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-386980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386980","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=386980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}