{"id":5227,"date":"2017-07-12T19:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T10:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2017-07-12T19:33:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T10:33:45","slug":"malaysian-american-footballer-wan-kuzain-wan-kamal-signs-professional-contract-swope-park-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/12\/malaysian-american-footballer-wan-kuzain-wan-kamal-signs-professional-contract-swope-park-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian-American footballer Wan Kuzain Wan Kamal signs professional contract with Swope Park Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Soccer League team Swope Park Rangers announced they have signed midfielder Wan Kuzain Wan Kamal to a full professional contract.<\/p>\n<p>Being a potential homegrown player for Sporting Kansas City, Kuzain joined Kansas City&#8217;s USL affiliate Swope Park Rangers in this March.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/09\/malaysia-target-final-stage-sea-games\/\">Malaysian<\/a>-American talent had played at Swope Park\u2019s roster on an Academy contract since the start of 2017 season and already made two appearances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited and very happy,\u201d Kuzain said, as quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingkc.com\/post\/2017\/07\/11\/spr-signs-sporting-kc-academy-product-wan-kuzain-wan-kamal-full-usl-contract\">SportingKC.com<\/a>. \u201cI just want to thank the Sporting Kansas City organization and the Swope Park Rangers for believing in me and I\u2019m excited to get to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebluetestament.com\/2017\/7\/11\/15956728\/swope-park-rangers-signs-wan-kuzain-wan-kamal-to-usl-contract-sporting-kansas-city\">SB Nation<\/a>, Swope Park Rangers head coach Nikola Popovic described Kuzain as one of the best prospects from Sporting KC\u2019s Academy.<\/p>\n<p>In Kuzain\u2019s two starts he made an impressive debut helping the Rangers to their first two wins and completing 90.6 percent of his 96 passes across those two games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Soccer League team Swope Park Rangers announced they have signed midfielder Wan Kuzain Wan Kamal to a full professional contract. Being a potential homegrown player for Sporting Kansas City, Kuzain joined Kansas City&#8217;s USL affiliate Swope Park Rangers in this March. The Malaysian-American talent had played at Swope Park\u2019s roster on an Academy contract since the start of 2017 season and already made two appearances. \u201cI\u2019m very excited and very happy,\u201d Kuzain said, as quoted by SportingKC.com. \u201cI just want to thank the Sporting Kansas City organization and the Swope Park Rangers for believing in me and I\u2019m excited to get to work.\u201d According to SB Nation, Swope Park &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/12\/malaysian-american-footballer-wan-kuzain-wan-kamal-signs-professional-contract-swope-park-rangers\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Malaysian-American footballer Wan Kuzain Wan Kamal signs professional contract with Swope Park Rangers&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[64,182,590],"class_list":["post-5227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-malaysia","tag-sporting-kansas-city","tag-wan-kuzain-wan-kamal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}