{"id":79004,"date":"2026-09-22T20:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/79004"},"modified":"2026-09-22T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:10:05","slug":"nycfc-claim-decorated-d-matt-miazga-off-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/79004","title":{"rendered":"NYCFC claim decorated D Matt Miazga off waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>New York City FC claimed former MLS Defender of the Year Matt Miazga off waivers from \u200bFC Cincinnati on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey native \u200cjoins NYCFC through the end of the 2026 season after being waived earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old veteran was \u200bthe MLS Defender of the Year and made \u200bthe MLS Best XI and All-Star teams \u2060in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to welcome Matt to New \u200bYork City,\u201d sporting director Todd Dunivant said. \u201cMatt brings \u200bexperience, mentality, and a competitive edge to our backline. His leadership will be valuable as we enter the final stretch \u200bof the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miazga has recorded three goals \u200band eight assists in 122 career MLS games (114 starts) with \u200cthe \u2060New York Red Bulls (2013-15) and Cincinnati (2022-26). His teams captured MLS Supporters\u2019 Shields in 2013, 2015 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>NYCFC are currently in 10th place in the Eastern \u200bConference, one \u200bpoint behind \u2060Cincinnati and the Red Bulls in the race for nine postseason spots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really \u200bexcited to join New York City \u200bFC and \u2060get straight to work,\u201d Miazga said. \u201cWe have an important stretch ahead of us, and I\u2019m ready \u2060to \u200bdo everything I can to help \u200bthe team compete for the playoffs and make a strong \u200brun through the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/nycfc-claim-decorated-d-matt-miazga-off-waivers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City FC claimed former MLS Defender of the Year Matt Miazga off waivers from \u200bFC Cincinnati on Tuesday. The New Jersey native \u200cjoins NYCFC through the end of the 2026 season after being waived earlier this month. The 31-year-old veteran was \u200bthe MLS Defender of the Year and made \u200bthe MLS Best XI and All-Star teams \u2060in 2023&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/FotoJet-2026-09-23T005147.175-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":6125,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":6125,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79006,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79004\/revisions\/79006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}