{"id":33115,"date":"2024-03-21T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=33115"},"modified":"2024-03-21T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:22:36","slug":"citizen-nagbe-mls-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=33115","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Nagbe | MLS Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I1QOpEL_JSI?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Portland Timbers attacker Darlington Nagbe may have no bigger fan, outside of his family at least, than his head coach, Caleb Porter. Having first watched Nagbe play as a Cleveland-area high schooler when Porter was coaching the University of Akron, it&#8217;s  safe to say Nagbe made an impression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy jaw just completely dropped when I first saw him touch the ball,\u201d Porter says. \u201cI knew this kid was completely special.\u201d<br \/>\nSince then, Nagbe and Porter have won a pair of championships together &#8211; the 2010 NCAA title and the 2015 MLS Cup &#8211; but earning US citizenship may have been the most emotional for the Liberian-born Nagbe.<\/p>\n<p>In Citizen Nagbe, the latest MLS Insider, presented by adidas, we hear from Porter and teammates Jack Jewsbury and Zarek Valentin about Nagbe&#8217;s special talent on the field, his family-first humility off it and his strong bond with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel for more soccer content: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=MLS<br \/>\n&#8211; Follow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS<br \/>\n&#8211; Like us on Facebook: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MLS<br \/>\n&#8211; Add us to your circle on Google Plus:  https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/111490959184064683855\/posts <\/p>\n<p>For more information about MLS, log on to the league&#8217;s official website at http:\/\/www.MLSsoccer.com<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I1QOpEL_JSI\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Timbers attacker Darlington Nagbe may have no bigger fan, outside of his family at least, than his head coach, Caleb Porter. Having first watched Nagbe play as a Cleveland-area&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":33116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}