{"id":26261,"date":"2025-06-30T04:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26261\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T04:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:45:09","slug":"san-antonio-native-joey-batrouni-helps-san-antonio-fc-secure-shutout-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26261\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio native Joey Batrouni helps San Antonio FC secure shutout win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 Joey Batrouni\u2019s hometown debut Saturday night looked like a dream for any athlete playing their favorite sport professionally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The LEE High School alum was San Antonio FC\u2019s starting goalkeeper against Union Omaha in a USL Championship J\u00e4germeister Cup match. He made three saves, helping SAFC to a 1-0 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The victory was also his first shutout, and doing it in his hometown made it even sweeter, the San Antonio FC academy alum said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cIt hits close to home, you know, being from here, growing up in the academy, you know, the coaches brought me up when I was a kid, and it\u2019s truly special,\u201d Batrouni said. \u201cBeing from the city as well, it\u2019s something I\u2019ve always dreamed of to play for the first team. Not only play for the first team but to get a win and get a clean sheet too on my first debut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Head coach Carlos Llamosa praised Batrouni\u2019s performance but also noted areas for improvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cYeah, he did great tonight, especially in crosses; he was good for us,\u201d Llamosa said. \u201cAs I say, things to improve, especially with his feet the ball distribution, but at the end of the day, we have a goalie to stop shots out there, you know, not to play with the ball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cBut if he can improve that part, it\u2019ll be better for him, but I think first call of the year for him, and I think he did tremendous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Batroutni and the team will be on the road Friday to face El Paso Locomotive FC.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Joey Batrouni\u2019s hometown debut Saturday night looked like a dream for any athlete playing their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,23094,11024,7202,23092,7203,221,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,23093],"class_list":{"0":"post-26261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-joey-batrouni","10":"tag-ksat-sports-now","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-fc","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-usl-championship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114770498202941171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26261","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=26261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}