{"id":406851,"date":"2026-08-14T22:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406851\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T22:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:46:07","slug":"fort-waynes-lilian-ricol-transferred-to-san-antonio-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406851\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Wayne\u2019s Lilian Ricol transferred to San Antonio FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) &#8211; Fort Wayne FC Forward Lilian Ricol is saying goodbye to Fort Wayne. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The team announced on Friday that it has agreed to send Ricol to San Antonio FC, a club in a higher-level USL Championship division. Ricol marks the first player to be sold by Fort Wayne FC since the club went pro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the club, terms of the transfer were not disclosed, but it was for a near-record USL League One transfer fee. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The transfer is still pending league approval. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m truly happy and grateful to have gotten the chance to play for Fort Wayne,\u201d Ricol said in a statement to the club. \u201cThe team helped me to grow as a man and as a player. Scoring the first goal, being (tied as) the all-time goal scorer, these things mean a lot to me. I\u2019m just really, really happy and grateful to have played for Fort Wayne and to now have the opportunity to go to USL Championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ricol played 19 games with Fort Wayne FC this season and scored 7 goals. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WPTA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) &#8211; Fort Wayne FC Forward Lilian Ricol is saying goodbye to Fort Wayne. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109737,82,43043,84,83,731],"class_list":["post-406851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-fort-wayne-fc","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-fc","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406851","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=406851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}