{"id":29847,"date":"2014-12-15T18:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T23:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=29847"},"modified":"2014-12-15T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T01:17:53","slug":"report-soares-en-route-to-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=29847","title":{"rendered":"Report: Soares En Route to Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29849\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Soares-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29849\" data-attachment-id=\"29849\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=29849\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Soares-2.png?fit=455%2C316\" data-orig-size=\"455,316\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Soares-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Soares-2.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Soares-2.png?fit=455%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29849\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Soares-2.png?resize=455%2C316\" alt=\"Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz\" width=\"455\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Soares-2.png?w=455 455w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Soares-2.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Arrivederci<\/em>, AJ.<\/p>\n<p>Revolution center back AJ Soares, who was voted by the media as the\u00a0team&#8217;s defender of the year in 2014, has reportedly signed a deal to play for Serie A (Italy) side Hellas Verona.<\/p>\n<p>The signing was reported by Jimmy Conrad of KickTV on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AjSoares\">@AjSoares<\/a> and his agent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikegartlan\">@mikegartlan<\/a> for wheeling and dealing a move to Hellas Verona and the Serie A! Buona fortuna, my friend!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jimmy Conrad (@JimmyConrad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimmyConrad\/status\/544545206688026624\">December 15, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The news of Soares&#8217; departure wasn&#8217;t unexpected. Last week, a report surfaced that the four-year veteran was seeking a move overseas after his contract expired at the end of the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Soares played 108 games for the Revolution after he was selected sixth overall in the 2011 draft. He scored six goals during his tenure in New England.<\/p>\n<p>With Soares reportedly gone, right back Andrew Farrell could be a candidate to fill the his role. The second-year defender saw action at center back at various points during the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old center back will join a familiar face at Hellas Veronas. Former Red Bulls defender Rafa Marquez currently plays for the Italian side, which sits 13th on the Serie A table with a 4-6-5 (17 points).<\/p>\n<p>Soares was one of three Revolution players who entered the offseason unsigned. Brad Knighton re-signed with the club on Monday, while Teal Bunbury remains the lone player whose status remains uncertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revs center back AJ Soares has reportedly signed a deal with Serie A side Hellas Verona. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Soares-1.png?fit=480%2C259","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29852,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847\/revisions\/29852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}