{"id":812939,"date":"2024-12-18T23:13:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T05:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/dc-united-sign-brazilian-winger-joao-peglow-mlssoccer-com\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T23:13:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T05:13:56","slug":"dc-united-sign-brazilian-winger-joao-peglow-mlssoccer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/dc-united-sign-brazilian-winger-joao-peglow-mlssoccer-com\/","title":{"rendered":"DC United sign Brazilian winger Jo\u00e3o Peglow | MLSSoccer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div role=\"main\" id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Page main content\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div data-bucket-name=\"main-content-before-middle-adv\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:<\/strong> <em>Signing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/d-c-united\/\">D.C. United<\/a> have signed winger Jo\u00e3o Peglow from Polish top-flight side Radomiak Radom, the club announced Monday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 22-year-old former Brazil youth international is under contract through 2027 with an option for 2028.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Peglow is an exceptional young talent with great technical ability and speed, making him a threat in our transition into attack,&#8221; said Ally Mackay, D.C. United&#8217;s general manager and chief soccer officer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a player who likes to take on defenders and has great attacking awareness. We believe he will be a great fit in Troy [Lesesne]\u2019s system, and we\u2019re excited to integrate him with the team ahead of the 2025 MLS season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Peglow arrives with 11g\/11a in 120 club appearances since breaking through at Internacional (Brazil). He also played extensively for FC Porto B (Portugal) and SC Dnipro-1 (Ukraine) before moving to Radomiak Radom.<\/p>\n<p>Peglow was part of Brazil&#8217;s squad that won the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup. He scored three goals in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, D.C. United&#8217;s attack was mid-table with 52 goals scored. However, nobody reached double-digit goals aside from Golden Boot presented by Audi winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/christian-benteke\">Christian Benteke<\/a> (23g\/7a).<\/p>\n<p>As the Black-and-Red address that problem this winter, they&#8217;re seeking the club&#8217;s first Audi MLS Cup Playoffs trip since 2019.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/dc-united-sign-brazilian-winger-joao-peglow\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Margherita Noren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Signing D.C. United have signed winger Jo\u00e3o Peglow from Polish top-flight side Radomiak Radom, the club announced Monday. The 22-year-old former Brazil youth international is under contract through 2027 with an option for 2028. &#8220;Peglow is an exceptional young talent with great technical ability and speed, making him a threat in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":812941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24425,2005,2620],"tags":[6801,8131],"class_list":{"0":"post-812939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brazilian","8":"category-soccer","9":"category-united","10":"tag-brazilian","11":"tag-united"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}