{"id":679494,"date":"2026-03-25T00:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/679494\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:17:14","slug":"la-galaxy-forward-gabriel-pec-named-to-concacaf-champions-cup-round-of-16-best-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/679494\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Galaxy\u00a0Forward Gabriel Pec Named to Concacaf Champions Cup Round of 16 Best XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOS ANGELES (March\u00a024, 2026)<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Concacaf and the LA Galaxy announced\u00a0today\u00a0that\u00a0forward\u00a0Gabriel Pec\u00a0has been named to the\u00a02026 Concacaf Champions Cup\u00a0Round of 16\u00a0Best XI for his performances against\u00a0Jamaican Premier League side Mount Pleasant FA.\u00a0The Brazilian winger\u00a0scored a competition-leading five goals over two legs to lead\u00a0LA\u00a0into\u00a0the Quarterfinal\u00a0round\u00a0of the\u00a0cup\u00a0among eight remaining teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pec kicked the Round of 16 off with a bang, scoring\u00a0the first hat trick of his professional career to\u00a0give\u00a0the Galaxy\u00a0a clear advantage\u00a0headed into the second leg.\u00a0His round-winning goal in just the 6th\u00a0minute of the match\u00a0was a\u00a0curling,\u00a0left-footed\u00a0effort from the right side of the box and\u00a0was followed up with a goal in the 89th\u00a0minute, a powerful shot off the bottom of the crossbar\u00a0to double the lead.\u00a0Then in the\u00a0final moments\u00a0of stoppage time,\u00a0Pec buried his third of the night to tie the bow on his 90-minute\u00a0takeover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy\u00a0then\u00a0traveled to Kingston, Jamaica for leg number two\u00a0and Pec brought\u00a0the energy once again, this time recording a brace\u00a0to officially account for five of the club\u2019s six goals in the series.\u00a0Pec curled his first goal of leg two into the bottom left corner just beyond the hour mark before\u00a0adding his second in the 87th\u00a0minute,\u00a0placing\u00a0himself in perfect position to\u00a0pounce on a rebound.\u00a0Now with Deportivo Toluca FC up next, the\u00a0Petr\u00f3polis, Brazil native will\u00a0look to build on his impressive Round of 16 showing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>2026 Concacaf Champions Cup Best XI\u00a0(Round of 16)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>F:\u00a0Ozziel\u00a0Herrera (Tigres)\u00a0Gabriel Pec\u00a0(LA),\u00a0Denis\u00a0Bouanga\u00a0(LAFC)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>M:\u00a0Erik Lira (Cruz Azul), Cristian Roldan (SEA), Jes\u00fas Angulo (Toluca),\u00a0Helinho\u00a0(Toluca)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>D:\u00a0Jes\u00fas\u00a0Gallardo\u00a0(Toluca), Ryan\u00a0Porteous\u00a0(LAFC),\u00a0Israel Reyes (Club Am\u00e9rica)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (March\u00a024, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Concacaf and the LA Galaxy announced\u00a0today\u00a0that\u00a0forward\u00a0Gabriel Pec\u00a0has been named to the\u00a02026 Concacaf Champions Cup\u00a0Round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":679495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,21809,40282,2961,224,5337,50,10426],"class_list":["post-679494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-gabriel-pec","tag-honors","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-news","tag-press-release"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116286944042198732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679494","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=679494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}