Ervin Torres hit another milestone in his season of firsts.<\/p>\n
The Laredoan scored his first MLS goal during a 2-1 loss to FC Dallas on Aug. 17. The 18-year-old’s goal was unassisted and tied the match 1-1 in the 57th minute. The shot came from just outside the box.<\/p>\n
With the goal, Torres became the second-youngest player to score a goal in club history. He did so in front of a home crowd that included the likes of comedian Shane Gillis and actor Matthew McConaughey, who were shown watching the game from a box after Torres’ goal.<\/p>\n
As the season has progressed, Torres has taken on a larger role and performed well with the expanded opportunities. On July 22, Torres assisted on two goals after entering as a substitute in the 84th minute of what was his third MLS appearance of the season. The outing led to longer stints off the bench, eventually culminating in the 18-year-old’s first career start, which came in a Leagues Cup win over Club Tijuana on Aug. 6.<\/p>\n
He has started each of Austin FC’s four games since making his first start, and he played the full 90 minutes against FC Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ervin Torres hit another milestone in his season of firsts. The Laredoan scored his first MLS goal during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[87644,132,134,133],"class_list":["post-409716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-aud4h","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409716","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=409716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}