{"id":9746,"date":"2012-02-28T12:20:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9746"},"modified":"2012-02-28T15:36:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T20:36:38","slug":"hydra-fc-nets-first-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9746","title":{"rendered":"Hydra FC Nets First Player"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Worcester Hydra signed Michael Eade on Tuesday. Eade is the team's first signing (Photo: Worcester Hydra FC).<\/p><\/div>\n

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Former Tottenham youth academy goalkeeper Michael Eade became the first player to sign with PDL expansion side Worcester Hydra, the team announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Eade, a native of Buckhurst Hill, England, also spent time with the Luton Town Youth Training Scheme. He played collegiately at Park University (Missouri) from 2007-09. In 2008, he named Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 2008 posting a 0.96 goals against average with 68 saves in 17 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very happy to announce that we\u2019ve signed Michael Eade,\u201d said Hydra general manager Craig Scriven said in a statement. \u201cHe becomes part of our club\u2019s history as Worcester Hydra\u2019s first signing. As with every successful soccer team, you must start at the back and in Michael we have a very competent and experienced goalkeeper who has played in big games.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hydra kick off their inaugural season on May 5 when they host the Seacoast United Phantoms at 7:00pm at Commerce Bank Field, located at Foley Stadium in Worcester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Tottenham youth academy goalkeeper Michael Eade became the first player to sign with PDL expansion side Worcester Hydra, the team announced on Tuesday. Eade, a native of Buckhurst Hill, England, also spent time with the Luton Town Youth Training Scheme. He played collegiately at Park University (Missouri) from 2007-09. In 2008, he named Midlands […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"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\/9746"}],"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=9746"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9755,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions\/9755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}