{"id":41541,"date":"2016-03-15T16:07:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T20:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=41541"},"modified":"2016-03-15T17:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:07:27","slug":"icymi-revs-reveal-that-jogo-occupies-dp-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=41541","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI? Revs Reveal that JoGo Occupies DP Slot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41542\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41542\" data-attachment-id=\"41542\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=41542\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jose-1.png?fit=600%2C416\" data-orig-size=\"600,416\" 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=\"Jose-1\" 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\/2016\/03\/Jose-1.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jose-1.png?fit=600%2C416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41542\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jose-1.png?resize=600%2C416\" alt=\"Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jose-1.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jose-1.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Xavier Kouassi may not have been on the field during Saturday&#8217;s scoreless draw against DC, but it turns out that the Revolution were <a href=\"http:\/\/pressbox.mlssoccer.com\/content\/designated-players#overlay-context=content\/media-resources\">aided by the presence of a designated player with ties to FC Sion nonetheless.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a tweet from <em>revolutionsoccer.net<\/em>&#8216;s Jeff Lemieux on Tuesday, center back Jose Goncalves, whose salary was pegged at $479,000 last year, currently occupies a designated player spot on the Revolution roster.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Already been confirmed, but to confirm the confirmation &#8211; Jose Goncalves does now occupy a Designated Player spot on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NERevs?src=hash\">#NERevs<\/a> roster.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Lemieux (@jeff_lemieux) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeff_lemieux\/status\/709822068125118464\">March 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old defender, who won the 2013 MLS Defender of the Year, avoided the label in previous seasons despite having a salary above the designated player threshold because the club bought down his cost with allocation money.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what prompted the change in designation, though it is worth nothing that the threshold &#8211; which was $368,000 when the Revolution exercised the purchase option contained in the loan agreement with FC Sion to acquire Goncalves following the 2013 season &#8211; increased to $457,500 in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Goncalves has played in 92 games for the Revolution since his arrival prior to the start of the 2013 season. He has worn the captain&#8217;s armband for the majority of his time in New England, which has reached the postseason in each of his previous three seasons with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Jose Goncalves has been carrying the DP tag this season unbeknownst to many until Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41542,"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":[122,891,190,888,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jose-1.png?fit=600%2C416","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41541"}],"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=41541"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41556,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41541\/revisions\/41556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}