TAMPA, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 The USL Championship today announced that\u00a0El Paso Locomotive FC forward Rubio Rub\u00edn\u00a0has been voted the USL Championship Player of the Month for August after\u00a0 recording four goals and helping the side post a six-game winning streak to move into contention for top spot in the Western Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a busy month for Locomotive,\u00a0Rub\u00edn\u00a0provided a strong all-around presence. He averaged a goal every\u00a0154.3 minutes\u00a0while ranking first in the league with 11 shots on target and second with 26 total shots in seven appearances\u00a0while also notching 12 chances created for the side.\u00a0The\u00a030-year-old ended the month with a 5.38 Expected\u00a0Goals+Assists\u00a0mark and a +2.66 Goals Added mark, highlighting his contributions to the side.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Guatemala international capped his month with the third hat trick in club history, leading the side to a 4-1 win against Loudoun United FC\u00a0on August 29, which moved him into a tie for the league-lead in the race for the Golden Boot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very grateful for this award,\u201d said\u00a0Rub\u00edn.\u00a0\u201cAugust was a great month. The team found form and confidence which only elevated my performance as well.\u00a0I’m\u00a0thankful for my teammates and my beautiful family who always support me. I\u00a0couldn’t\u00a0do it without them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rub\u00edn\u00a0earned\u00a041% of a weighted poll that included the USL Championship Technical Committee, a national panel of independent media\u00a0representing\u00a0every USL market and an online fan vote held at USLChampionship.com.\u00a0The Charleston Battery\u2019s Miguel Berry finished second\u00a0on\u00a028% after leading all players with six goal contributions over the month, notching three goals and three assists in\u00a0five appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 The USL Championship today announced that\u00a0El Paso Locomotive FC forward Rubio Rub\u00edn\u00a0has been voted the USL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,223],"class_list":["post-432757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432757","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=432757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}