{"id":7117,"date":"2026-07-28T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:36:16","slug":"usas-sebastian-berhalter-joins-middlesbrough-from-vancouver-whitecaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7117","title":{"rendered":"USA&#039;s Sebastian Berhalter Joins Middlesbrough From Vancouver Whitecaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>United States midfielder Sebastian Berhalter has transferred to English Championship side Middlesbrough from the Vancouver Whitecaps for an undisclosed fee, both clubs announced Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>Vancouver will retain a percentage of any future transfer fee for Berhalter, whose contract was set to expire at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>&#8220;This is where I want to be,&#8221; Berhalter said in a Middlesbrough statement. &#8220;I want to keep getting better as a player and person, and this is a great place to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>The 25-year-old featured in all five U.S. games at the recent FIFA World Cup, registering a goal and an assist in his lone start against T\u00fcrkiye.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>At Middlesbrough, Berhalter reunites with former Columbus and USA teammate Aidan Morris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been watching the club closely over the last two years because of Aidan, and I kind of fell in love with the club, especially over the last year with the way they play and the way they fight,&#8221; Berhalter added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>Berhalter, the son of former USA head coach and player Gregg Berhalter, joined Vancouver in February 2022 from Columbus Crew, recording 20 goals and 34 assists across 167 appearances. He was named to last year&#8217;s MLS Best XI as Vancouver reached the MLS Cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>Middlesbrough missed out on Premier League promotion after losing to Hull City in May&#8217;s Championship playoff final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY United States midfielder Sebastian Berhalter has transferred to English Championship side Middlesbrough from the Vancouver Whitecaps for an undisclosed fee, both clubs announced Tuesday.\u00a0 Vancouver will retain a percentage of any future transfer fee for Berhalter, whose contract was set to expire at the end of 2026. &#8220;This is where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}