{"id":225711,"date":"2025-09-14T08:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225711\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:28:19","slug":"philadelphia-union-add-homegrown-neil-pierre-to-roster-ahead-of-match-against-vancouver-whitecaps-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225711\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union Add Homegrown Neil Pierre To Roster Ahead Of Match Against Vancouver Whitecaps FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Union announced today they have signed Neil Pierre to a short-term agreement. The homegrown defender will be available for the club\u2019s match tonight against Vancouver Whitecaps FC and is an off-roster Homegrown players for the club.<\/p>\n<p>Per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/about\/roster-rules-and-regulations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 MLS Roster Rules and Regulations<\/a>, off-roster Homegrown Players are ineligible for MLS League Season competition except as short-term call-ups. Off-Roster Homegrown Players may appear as short-term call ups in up to six MLS League Season matches per Season. Such player must be 21 years old or younger during a calendar year to be eligible as an Off-Roster Homegrown player. Subject to the age limitations, players may continue to be Off-Roster Homegrowns, so long as they remain on their initial MLS contract. The call-up is the 11th call-up for the club in 2025 having yet to make an appearance in a league match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSACTION:<\/strong> Philadelphia Union sign Neil Pierre to a short-term agreements on September 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Neil Pierre<br \/><strong>Position:<\/strong> Defender<br \/><strong>Height:<\/strong> 6\u20195\u201d<br \/><strong>Weight:<\/strong> 176 lbs<br \/><strong>Born:<\/strong> October 19, 2007<br \/><strong>Birthplace:<\/strong> Lebanon, Pennsylvania<br \/><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Lebanon, Pennsylvania<br \/><strong>Citizenship:<\/strong> United States<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union announced today they have signed Neil Pierre to a short-term agreement. The homegrown defender will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":225712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,22726,50,1448,2830,1311,89317,22725,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-225711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-neil-pierre","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-rbnyvsphi-08-16-2025","15":"tag-transaction","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115201710739176895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}