{"id":485369,"date":"2024-07-18T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485369"},"modified":"2024-07-18T02:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T06:45:53","slug":"cavan-sullivan-breaks-mls-record-for-youngest-debut","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cavan-sullivan-breaks-mls-record-for-youngest-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavan Sullivan breaks MLS record for youngest debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen-year-old Cavan Sullivan of the Philadelphia Union has made history by becoming the youngest player ever to appear in a Major League Soccer (MLS) match. Sullivan entered as an 85th-minute substitute in the Union&#8217;s 5-1 victory over the New England Revolution at Subaru Park, Pennsylvania, breaking the previous record held by Freddy Adu, who debuted at 14 years and 306 days old in 2004.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cavan Sullivan makes his MLS debut for Philadelphia Union at 14 years and 293 days \ud83d\udc76<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the youngest player ever to debut among the top North American professional sports leagues (MLS, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, NWSL).<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MLS<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nQkmNOFGW8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nQkmNOFGW8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1813747569472012734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At just 14 years and 293 days, Sullivan not only set a new record for MLS but also became the youngest player in any top-flight North American team sport. His signing in May marked the biggest homegrown player deal in MLS history, underscoring the high expectations surrounding his potential.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan has expressed excitement about his future move to Manchester City when he turns 18, highlighting the collaboration between the Philadelphia Union and the City Football Group as a decisive factor in his career plans. &#8220;The collaboration between the Union and the City Group was &#8211; that did it for me. I always watch Man City. They&#8217;re like every kid&#8217;s dream team,&#8221; Sullivan told ESPN.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">14 years and 293 days old \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>Cavan Sullivan has made his MLS debut for Philadelphia Union, making him the youngest player to debut in any of USA\u2019s top five sports leagues \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zcARfaiHwk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zcARfaiHwk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCMOTD\/status\/1813814476426060070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Former record-holder Freddy Adu congratulated Sullivan on social media, recognizing the difficulty of breaking such a record and wishing him well. &#8220;Big congrats to Cavan Sullivan for his record-breaking debut today,&#8221; Adu posted. &#8220;That&#8217;s a hard record to break and the kid did it. Well done and good luck my man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Union manager Jim Curtin praised Sullivan&#8217;s talent before his debut, telling the MLS website, &#8220;The sky&#8217;s the limit. He&#8217;s a generational talent, one who can really change the game by himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen-year-old Cavan Sullivan of the Philadelphia Union has made history by becoming the youngest player ever to appear in a Major League Soccer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485370,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17673],"news_category":[17676,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[23156,18984],"acf":{"announce":"At 14 years and 293 days, he is the youngest player in any top-flight North American team sport","video":["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\/485369"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485371,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485369\/revisions\/485371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485369"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485369"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}