{"id":18160,"date":"2013-02-12T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T21:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=18160"},"modified":"2013-02-12T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T03:51:55","slug":"revs-re-entry-pick-freeman-signs-with-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=18160","title":{"rendered":"Revs Re-Entry Pick Freeman Signs with Cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week after he revealed via Twitter that he wouldn&#8217;t be playing for New England this season, Revolution Re-Entry Process selection Hunter Freeman signed with the New York Cosmos (NASL) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman, who appeared in 19 games for the Colorado Rapids last season, was taken in Stage 2 of last December&#8217;s Re-Entry Process, along with former Los Angeles Galaxy forward Chad Barrett. Barrett came to terms with the Revolution on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chance to play in New York City was too good of an opportunity to pass up,\u201d said Freeman in a statement. \u201cI am excited to be a part of this project and help deliver the Cosmos back to the top of American soccer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freeman&#8217;s guaranteed salary for the Rapids last season was listed at $110,000. Per MLS Rules, the Revolution were obligated to extend a genuine offer to the veteran defender after he was selected in Stage 2 of the Re-entry Process last December.<\/p>\n<p>But on Feb. 4, Freeman took to Twitter to reveal that he was not going to join the Revolution this season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>For all you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23Revs\">#Revs<\/a> fans, I was looking forward to playing in your colors. Wish it could have worked out. I appreciate all of yalls support<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hunter Freeman (@huntfree) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/huntfree\/status\/298616365219201024\">February 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown the amount New England offered him, and the Cosmos did not reveal the terms of their deal with Freeman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after he revealed via Twitter that he wouldn&#8217;t be playing for New England this season, Revolution Re-Entry Process selection Hunter Freeman signed with the New York Cosmos (NASL) on Monday. Freeman, who appeared in 19 games for the Colorado Rapids last season, was taken in Stage 2 of last December&#8217;s Re-Entry Process, along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[194,281,282,1274],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18160"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18189,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160\/revisions\/18189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}