{"id":428232,"date":"2023-03-03T03:56:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T08:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428232"},"modified":"2023-03-03T03:56:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T08:56:32","slug":"yamil-asad-to-start-third-stint-at-dc-united","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/yamil-asad-to-start-third-stint-at-dc-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamil Asad to start third stint at DC United"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"oc-c-body-part oc-c-body-part--text \">\n<p>DC United have signed veteran midfielder Yamil Asad on a one-year deal through the 2023 MLS season with options for 2024-25, the MLS announced on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A familiar face is reUnited ahead of our trip to Columbus \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WayneRooney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WayneRooney<\/a>&#39;s full pre-match press conference on our YouTube channel.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CLBvDC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CLBvDC<\/a> || <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VamosUnited?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VamosUnited<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; D.C. United (@dcunited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcunited\/status\/1631424748423897095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Argentine begins his third stint with the Black-and-Red, having originally joined the team on loan during the 2018 season before returning to childhood club Velez Sarsfield the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Asad was back with United in 2020, this time on a permanent contract, playing an additional two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYamil loves this club and has been steadfast in his desire to return,\u201d D.C. president of soccer operations Dave Kasper said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve always been impressed with how Yamil leaves it all on the field and bleeds for the shirt. We look forward to getting him back on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oc-c-body-part oc-c-body-part--text \">United are coming off a dramatic 3-2 Matchday 1 win over Toronto FC\u00a0and will look to make it two straight victories on the new season Saturday night when visiting the\u00a0Columbus Crew.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC United have signed veteran midfielder Yamil Asad on a one-year deal through the 2023 MLS season with options for 2024-25, the MLS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428233,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17923,16867],"news_category":[17676],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The veteran signed a one-year deal","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428232"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428232"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}