\n He joined the Lions from Leeds United in the summer after impressing on trial following his release from Elland Road.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 21-year-old full back has made 26 appearances for the Lions this season.\n<\/p>\n
\n But Ferguson has now signed for Portland Timbers 2, who compete in the Pacific Division of the MLS Next Pro league.\n<\/p>\n
\n Taylor Bowen left Guiseley and made the move to the States in October, while another young Lions ace is heading over there later this year.\n<\/p>\n
\n Defender Freddie Westfall is still only a teenager, and with the centre back understandably not yet a first-team regular at Nethermoor, this is a chance to do things differently.\n<\/p>\n
\n He has been snapped up by the Sports Recruting USA (SRUSA) Elite Academy, which allows young footballers, often from the UK, the chance to play college soccer in America.\n<\/p>\n
\n Not shy of putting in a tackle, former Guiseley Academy captain Freddie Westfall would be an asset to any college side out in America. (Image: Alex Daniel)\n<\/p>\n
\n Still only just beginning his journey in first-team football, Westfall got vital experience under his belt with Steeton in the North West Counties Football League First Division North, while there on dual registration.\n<\/p>\n
\n Before then, he spent several years in Sheffield Wednesday\u2019s academy.\n<\/p>\n
\n Westfall will be available to American college sides in the autumn, while his agent will be Joe Stacey (joe@sportsrecruitingusa.com<\/a>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He joined the Lions from Leeds United in the summer after impressing on trial following his release from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-698784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115902020464951647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}