{"id":6974,"date":"2013-07-16T17:50:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T21:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/?p=6974"},"modified":"2013-07-16T17:50:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T21:50:31","slug":"academy-graduate-benji-lopez-signs-with-real-salt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/academy-graduate-benji-lopez-signs-with-real-salt-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy Graduate Benji Lopez Signs With Real Salt Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-6470\" alt=\"Grande Sports Academy - Real Salt Lake Reserves vs Phoenix FC - Benji Lopez (6)\" src=\"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Grande-Sports-Academy-Real-Salt-Lake-Reserves-vs-Phoenix-FC-Benji-Lopez-6-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"381\" height=\"253\" \/><strong>CASA GRANDE, Ariz. &#8211;<\/strong> Recent Grande Sports Academy graduate Benji Lopez has signed with Real Salt Lake, becoming the fourth player from the GSA to sign with the Claret-and-Cobalt.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez who played with the U-18 MNT earlier this year, was a member of the RSL-AZ Academy for the past two seasons. In his first season at the Academy, 2011-12, Lopez scored 7 goals in 19 games with the U-16 team. This past season, with the U-18 team he scored 14 goals in 17 games but missed a significant part of the season with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez will join teammates Carlos Salcedo and Lalo Fernandez who also attended the Grande Sports Academy. Nico Muniz, this first signing from the GSA, is no longer with RSL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CASA GRANDE, Ariz. &#8211; Recent Grande Sports Academy graduate Benji Lopez has signed with Real Salt Lake, becoming the fourth player from the GSA to sign with the Claret-and-Cobalt. Lopez who played with the U-18 MNT earlier this year, was a member of the RSL-AZ Academy for the past two seasons. In his first season [&hellip;]<\/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":[19,220,12,29],"tags":[72],"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\/6974"}],"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=6974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}