{"id":1516955,"date":"2021-12-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1516955"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:48:03","slug":"charlottes-first-and-forgotten-sports-star-life-death-and-his-season-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1516955","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte\u2019s first and forgotten sports star: Life, death and his season in the sun\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago, before Major League Soccer, the Charlotte Hornets or the Carolina Panthers ever existed, Charlotte witnessed the birth of its first soccer superstar. His name was Tony Suarez, \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article254198388.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article254198388.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article254198388.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Charlotte\u2019s first and forgotten sports star: Life, death and his season in the sun\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago, before Major League Soccer, the Charlotte Hornets or the Carolina Panthers ever existed, Charlotte witnessed the birth of its first soccer superstar. His&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903371,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516955\/revisions\/1903371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}