{"id":4266,"date":"2011-04-04T12:46:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=4266"},"modified":"2011-04-06T14:36:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T18:36:51","slug":"report-lekic-signs-with-revs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=4266","title":{"rendered":"Report: Lekic signs with Revs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOXBOROUGH, Mass. &#8211; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/soccer\/articles\/2011\/04\/03\/despite_unbeaten_status_theyre_beating_themselves_up\/\">a report from <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/soccer\/articles\/2011\/04\/03\/despite_unbeaten_status_theyre_beating_themselves_up\/\">The Boston Globe<\/a><\/em>, 29-year-old Silkeborg striker Rajko Lekic, who was on trial with the Revolution two weeks ago, will join the Revolution upon the approval of a work visa.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which cites a team source, stated that Lekic has already signed with the league. Pending the approval of his work visa, the Danish-Montenegrin footballer will join a squad that has lacked a true #9 center-forward since Taylor Twellman&#8217;s career was abruptly cut short due to concussion-related injuries.<\/p>\n<p>In 96 career games with Silkeborg over two separate stints (2003-04, 2008-11), Lekic has scored a spectacular 69 goals. It is unclear whether he will be named the club&#8217;s first designated player, although his acquisition from Silkeborg indicates that he will likely be paid a princely sum to play for the Revs.<\/p>\n<p>In light of the fact that there are currently no available international spots on the Revolution roster, the arrival of Lekic will likely force New England to find a trading partner to obtain one or will usher the release of a current international player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revolution have reportedly recruited Silkeborg IF striker Rajko Lekic to be their new number 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3976,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lekicfeature.jpg?fit=490%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266"}],"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=4266"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}