{"id":155941,"date":"2025-09-14T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155941\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T10:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:08:06","slug":"hat-trick-heroes-muller-bouanga-more-make-mls-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155941\/","title":{"rendered":"Hat trick heroes: M\u00fcller, Bouanga &#038; more make MLS history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/son-heung-min\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Son Heung-Min<\/a> scored within the opening minute, but it was Bouanga who stole the headlines with a three-goal eruption in front of 50,978 fans at Levi&#8217;s Stadium during LAFC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2025\/matches\/sjvslafc-09-13-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-2 win<\/a> over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-jose-earthquakes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Earthquakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A three-time All-Star, two-time MLS Best XI selection and the 2023 MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi winner, Bouanga now has 18g\/7a on the year and is two tallies away from recording his third straight 20-goal season with the Black &amp; Gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Son Heung-Min scored within the opening minute, but it was Bouanga who stole the headlines with a three-goal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[95300,10926,95301,30056,45927,95298,95299,47890,6864,6863,6868,95302,403,99,35244,30065,95303],"class_list":["post-155941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-atlvsclb-09-13-2025","tag-charlotte-fc","tag-cltvsmia-09-13-2025","tag-columbus-crew","tag-denis-bouanga","tag-diego-rossi","tag-idan-toklomati","tag-los-angeles-football-club","tag-match-reaction","tag-priority-match","tag-sendtonews","tag-sjvslafc-09-13-2025","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-thomas-muller","tag-vancouver-whitecaps-fc","tag-vanvsphi-09-13-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}