{"id":36739,"date":"2015-07-10T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=36739"},"modified":"2015-07-10T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:48:16","slug":"packwood-back-on-trial-w-revs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=36739","title":{"rendered":"Packwood Back on Trial w\/ Revs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-51.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34790\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=34790\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-51.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" 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-51.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-51.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-51.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Will-5\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-51.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-51.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A familiar face was spotted at the Revolution&#8217;s training ground on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. U-23 center back Will Packwood, who trialed with the Revolution back in May following his departure from Birmingham City, was back in the fold for Friday&#8217;s training session, per <em>MLSSoccer.com&#8217;s <\/em>Craig Forde, who tweeted the development.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Concord, Mass. native spent a week on trial with the Revolution, only to walk away without a contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just looked at (the trial) at the end of it as a staff and we just didn\u2019t see him playing first team minutes for us right now,\u201d Revolution general manager Michael Burns told ESPNBoston.com last month. \u201cSo that\u2019s really what it came down to. We were honest with him and his agent, and said that it\u2019s important for him to be playing. We just didn\u2019t foresee that right now with us, and that\u2019s reason why we didn\u2019t pursue the signing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But with the club&#8217;s defensive depth thinner than it was two months ago due to Jermaine Jones&#8217; second hernia surgery, it appears Packwood, who starred with the U.S. U-23s during last month&#8217;s Toulon tournament, may be primed to sign the second time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former trialist Will Packwood is back in training with the Revs, per MLSSoccer.com&#8217;s Craig Forde. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34790,"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":[1274,892,1071,1107],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Will-51.png?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36739"}],"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=36739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36740,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36739\/revisions\/36740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}