{"id":40945,"date":"2025-01-17T02:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T23:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=40945"},"modified":"2025-01-17T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T00:05:00","slug":"japanese-mataka-hayashi-joins-chicago-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/japanese-mataka-hayashi-joins-chicago-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Mataka Hayashi Joins Chicago Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-a:r-8048947337960477160-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Japanese footballer Mataka Hayashi announced on Thursday her move to the U.S. club Chicago Stars.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The captain of Japan\u2019s U-20 women\u2019s national team signed a three-year contract with the National Women\u2019s Soccer League (NWSL) team.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In an official statement, Hayashi said: &#8220;I am very excited to join this club. I thank everyone who made this move possible, and I look forward to meeting my teammates, the coaching staff, and the fans, as well as achieving victories with this team.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hayashi led Japan&#8217;s U-19 team to victory in the 2023 AFC U-19 Women\u2019s Championship and secured second place with the U-20 team in both the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup and the 2024 AFC U-20 Women\u2019s Asian Cup in Uzbekistan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Originally from Hyogo Prefecture, Hayashi is no stranger to playing in the United States, having competed at the collegiate level with the Santa Clara Broncos in 2024, according to the official website of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">During her first season with Santa Clara, Hayashi started all nine matches she played, recording 10 shots over 719 minutes of game time.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese footballer Mataka Hayashi announced on Thursday her move to the U.S. club Chicago Stars. The captain of Japan\u2019s U-20 women\u2019s national team signed a three-year contract with the National Women\u2019s Soccer League (NWSL) team. In an official statement, Hayashi said: &#8220;I am very excited to join this club. I thank everyone who made this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40946,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945\/revisions\/40946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}