{"id":885435,"date":"2026-01-16T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/ben-cremaschi-named-u-s-soccers-2025-young-male-player-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:40:23","slug":"ben-cremaschi-named-u-s-soccers-2025-young-male-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/ben-cremaschi-named-u-s-soccers-2025-young-male-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Cremaschi named U.S. Soccer\u2019s 2025 Young Male Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n\t\t<main id=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-750553\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" itemscope>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Inter Miami\u2019s Ben Cremaschi has started 2026 by receiving a major honor from U.S. Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Creamschi was named U.S. Soccer\u2019s Young Male Player of the Year for 2025, the federation announced Thursday. The talented midfielder received 38.9% of the weighted total vote and was followed by Cavan Sullivan (34.8%) and Mathis Albert (12.3%) in the Top 3 of voting for the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis award means a lot to me,\u201d Cremaschi said. \u201cIt\u2019s a representation of how my year went with my clubs and the National Team. This is an amazing accomplishment, but it also speaks to all the people around me that keep me going as a player. I want to thank my family, teammates and everyone that made this award possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy U-20 teammates gave me the confidence I needed to be the player and leader I needed to be at the World Cup,\u201d he added. \u201cThat is a group of guys I will never forget. I also want to thank Marko Mitrovic \u2013 a coach I\u2019ve had at many different levels with the National Team \u2013 for his belief and guidance along the way. Finally, I\u2019m so grateful to my family, for their support and love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cremaschi made 22 appearances for Inter Miami during the 2025 MLS season, registering one goal and adding four assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Herons would go on to win MLS Cup while Cremaschi joined Italian Serie A side Parma on loan over the summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s made three appearances for Parma in all competitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the international level, Cremaschi captained the U.S. Under-20 men\u2019s national team that reached the quarterfinals of the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He won the tournament\u2019s Golden Boot award after scoring five goals, becoming just the second American player to do so in that tournament\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also made his senior USMNT debut in 2025, starting both friendlies against Venezuela and Costa Rica last January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/main>\n\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbisoccer.com\/2026\/01\/ben-cremaschi-named-u-s-soccers-2025-young-male-player-of-the-year\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Larry Henry Jr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Inter Miami\u2019s Ben Cremaschi has started 2026 by receiving a major honor from U.S. Soccer. Creamschi was named U.S. Soccer\u2019s Young Male Player of the Year for 2025, the federation announced Thursday. The talented midfielder received 38.9% of the weighted total vote and was followed by Cavan Sullivan (34.8%) and Mathis Albert (12.3%) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126219,2023,2005],"tags":[126218,7490],"class_list":{"0":"post-885435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cremaschi","8":"category-named","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-cremaschi","11":"tag-named"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885435","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=885435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}