{"id":1552020,"date":"2022-01-11T17:19:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1552020"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:19:31","slug":"charlotte-fc-selects-maryland-midfielder-ben-bender-with-first-overall-pick-in-mls-superdraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1552020","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte FC selects Maryland midfielder Ben Bender with first overall pick in MLS SuperDraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/charlotte-fc-selects-maryland-midfielder-ben-bender-with-first-overall-pick-in-mls-superdraft\/20073864\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/soccer\/2021\/11\/18\/19989130\/charlotte-fc-mls-1--DMID1-5sxhy9ko0-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte FC\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The University of Maryland midfielder finished his sophomore season with seven goals and five assists in 18 appearances, leading his team to a 12-4-2 overall record. Bender was named a United Soccer Coaches First Team All-American and the Big Ten Midfielder of the Year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/charlotte-fc-selects-maryland-midfielder-ben-bender-with-first-overall-pick-in-mls-superdraft\/20073864\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/charlotte-fc-selects-maryland-midfielder-ben-bender-with-first-overall-pick-in-mls-superdraft\/20073864\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Charlotte FC selects Maryland midfielder Ben Bender with first overall pick in MLS SuperDraft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Maryland midfielder finished his sophomore season with seven goals and five assists in 18 appearances, leading his team to a 12-4-2 overall record&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552020","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=1552020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1552020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1552020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}