{"id":34788,"date":"2015-05-18T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=34788"},"modified":"2015-05-18T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T20:19:40","slug":"report-revs-wont-pursue-packwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=34788","title":{"rendered":"Report: Revs Won&#8217;t Pursue Packwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34789\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=34789\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-5.png?fit=600%2C415\" data-orig-size=\"600,415\" 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=\"Will-5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-5.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-5.png?fit=600%2C415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34789\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-5.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Will-5\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-5.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-5.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It turns out former Birmingham City defender and Concord, Mass. native Will Packwood won&#8217;t be joining the Revolution after all.<\/p>\n<p>According to a tweet from <em>Fox Soccer&#8217;s <\/em>Kyle McCarthy on Monday, Revolution general manager Michael Burns confirmed that the team won&#8217;t be signing the 21-year-old central defender.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New England will not pursue the signing of Will Packwood, according to Revs general manager Michael Burns. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MLS?src=hash\">#MLS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kyle McCarthy (@kylejmccarthy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylejmccarthy\/status\/600352772328939522\">May 18, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Packwood joined the Revolution on trial last week following the end of his tenure with Championship side Birmingham City. He originally joined\u00a0Birmingham City&#8217;s\u00a0academy at age 14.<\/p>\n<p>After a series of injury-plagued seasons, Packwood requested that the English club terminate his contract. That request was honored, and thus, Packwood became a free agent with the intention of joining an MLS side.<\/p>\n<p>Packwood was not included in the allocation ranking list issued on May 1, indicating that an MLS club holds his discovery rights. In a May 6 ESPNFC.com report, Packwood acknowledged that he did not know which MLS club held those rights.<\/p>\n<p>The young defender, who\u2019s also suited up for the U.S. U-23s and U-20s, joined the Birmingham City Academy as a 14-year-old in 2007. Over the last few seasons, he\u2019s had loan spells at League Two clubs Bristol Rovers and Cheltenham Town and League One club Colchester United.<\/p>\n<p>The Revolution currently have only three natural center backs on the active roster (Jose Goncalves, Andrew Farrell, and London Woodberry), though one of them &#8211; Woodberry &#8211; has been converted to right back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report, the Revs are no longer interested in signing Will Packwood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34789,"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":[1108,1274,892,629,1107],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-5.png?fit=600%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34788"}],"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=34788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34793,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34788\/revisions\/34793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}