{"id":429429,"date":"2023-03-08T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429429"},"modified":"2023-03-08T11:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:17:30","slug":"defender-lucas-bartlett-joins-expansion-team-st-louis-city","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/defender-lucas-bartlett-joins-expansion-team-st-louis-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Defender Lucas Bartlett joins expansion team St. Louis City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis City SC have signed center back Lucas Bartlett, who trained with the team as a trialist, through the 2023 MLS season with option years for 2024-25, the club announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lucas is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllForCITY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AllForCITY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have signed trialist and former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCDallas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FCDallas<\/a> Defender <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucas_bartlett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lucas_bartlett<\/a> to an MLS contract. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s79DHjXA0I\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/s79DHjXA0I<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SGwxWtv7xN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SGwxWtv7xN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; St Louis CITY SC (@stlCITYsc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stlCITYsc\/status\/1633483002297581568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old defender played college soccer at Loyola University Chicago, Drake University and St. John\u2019s University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLucas has shown his quality from the first day he came to camp as a trialist,\u201d St. Louis sporting director Lutz Pfannenstiel said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say Bartlett could add depth alongside a domestic-only center back corps that\u2019s featured Tim Parker and Kyle Hiebert as early-season starters.<\/p>\n<p>Both Jon Bell and Josh Yaro are other options for the position.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion side placed Swedish International Joakim Nilsson on the Injury Reserve List.<\/p>\n<p>The German Bundesliga veteran signed with St. Louis last summer but hasn\u2019t debuted due to a long-term knee injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis City SC have signed center back Lucas Bartlett, who trained with the team as a trialist, through the 2023 MLS season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":429430,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17674],"news_category":[138],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The expansion side placed Swedish International Joakim Nilsson on IR List","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\/429429"}],"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=429429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429429"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429429"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}