{"id":37870,"date":"2015-08-25T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=37870"},"modified":"2015-08-25T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T13:57:52","slug":"phantoms-fwd-pdl-mvp-grant-joins-kickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=37870","title":{"rendered":"Phantoms FWD Grant Joins Kickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37871\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Grant-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37871\" data-attachment-id=\"37871\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=37871\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Grant-1.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=\"Grant-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Richmond Kickers&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Grant-1.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Grant-1.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Grant-1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: Richmond Kickers\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Grant-1.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Grant-1.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Richmond Kickers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Seacoast United Phantoms forward Anthony Grant, who earned the 2015 PDL MVP award on the back of a 12-goal season with the New Hampshire outfit, signed with the USL&#8217;s Richmond Kickers last week.<\/p>\n<p>Grant, who collected a combined 26 goals over the last two seasons with the Phantoms, joined the USL side last Thursday. He made his Kickers debut on Saturday in a 2-0 win over Saint Louis FC when he came on as a 63rd minute substitute.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaican International earned PDL All-Conference honors in 2014 and 2015, and also earned the PDL&#8217;s Golden Boot award this year. <\/p>\n<p>The Kickers currently sit in fifth place in the Eastern Conference on 36 points, four points above the sixth-place Pittsburgh Riverhounds. The top six teams in each conference earn playoff spots.<\/p>\n<p>Grant and his Richmond teammates return to action on Saturday when they face the Charleston Battery at City Stadium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDL MVP Anthony Grant, who scored 12 goals for the Phantoms this year, signed a pro deal with the Richmond Kickers last week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37871,"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":[84],"tags":[1176,891,1291,364,347,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Grant-1.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\/37870"}],"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=37870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37874,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37870\/revisions\/37874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}