{"id":1690,"date":"2012-01-19T23:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2012-01-19T23:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T23:00:57","slug":"several-mls-and-nasl-teams-to-visit-grande-sports-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/several-mls-and-nasl-teams-to-visit-grande-sports-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Several MLS and NASL Teams to Visit Grande Sports Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grande Sports Academy players will have company at Grande Sports World as several MLS and NASL teams prepare for their upcoming seasons. Visiting teams include: Real Salt Lake, Seattle Sounders FC, New England Revolution, Vancouver Whitecaps, FC Edmonton, and NSC Minnesota. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The New England Revolution will begin their preseason on the 21<sup>st<\/sup> at Grande Sports World. New Head Coach Jay Heaps will use the team\u2019s time in Casa Grande to get to know about his players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s really about getting a feel for each other,\u201d Heaps told MLSSoccer.com. \u201cAs much as I know these guys and as well as I know these guys, there&#8217;s still a feeling out process. They have to feel me out and I have to feel them out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Sounders will train from January 30<sup>th<\/sup> to February 7<sup>th<\/sup>. Highlights from the Sounder\u2019s visit last year can be seen here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundersfc.com\/media-library\/Videos\/Features\/2011\/01-January\/110130-Welcome-to-Casa.aspx\">http:\/\/www.soundersfc.com\/media-library\/Videos\/Features\/2011\/01-January\/110130-Welcome-to-Casa.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Whitecaps will begin a 10-day camp at Grande Sports World on January 31<sup>st<\/sup>. This marks the third consecutive preseason the White Caps will have used the 40-acre soccer facility.<\/p>\n<p>Real Salt Lake, Minnesota Stars FC, and FC Edmonton will also be making a trip Casa Grande to prepare for their upcoming seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Grande Sports Academy player Etiandro Tavares looks forward to the professional teams visiting. \u201cYou feel honored training alongside such a high caliber players. It\u2019s really cool. Not everyone gets a chance to play alongside professional players,\u201d Tavares said. \u201cWhen are practice gets out early, we get a chance to watch and talk to players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schedule for visiting MLS and NASL teams at Grande Sports World:<\/p>\n<p><strong>New England Revolution January 21- January 31<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Seattle Sounders January 30-February 7<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Vancouver Whitecaps January 31-February 11<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Real Salt Lake February 9-February 14<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Minnesota Stars FC March 2-March 4<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>FC Edmonton March 4-March 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grande Sports Academy players will have company at Grande Sports World as several MLS and NASL teams prepare for their upcoming seasons. Visiting teams include: Real Salt Lake, Seattle Sounders FC, New England Revolution, Vancouver Whitecaps, FC Edmonton, and NSC Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"grandesacademy","author_link":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/author\/grandesacademy\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}