{"id":34582,"date":"2023-02-26T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=34582"},"modified":"2023-02-26T20:57:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:57:43","slug":"fc-london-inks-lewis-dye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=34582","title":{"rendered":"FC London inks Lewis Dye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> A Fall River soccer player has landed a deal with a League 1 men\u2019s club in Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FC London announced on their Instagram they have signed Lewis Dye, a Lockview High alum, to their 2023 roster for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dye was a first team All Canadian in 2022-2023; a first team AUS All-Star in 2022-2023; and N.S. Senior player of the year in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;194&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;8&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FC London Head Coach Yiannis Tsalatsidis said the moment they saw Dye play, the team\u2019s staff fell in love with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u201dHe is a student of the game. We\u2019ve been working with him a lot through video recently,\u201d said Tsalatsidis. \u201cThrough our conversations it\u2019s clear why he\u2019s been an all-star and a leader in his university environment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Dye provides the team some stability and confidence at the back and against the ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLewis is a model for young players from N.S. when it comes to moulding your own path,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019ll be representing the entire province and showcasing that sometimes you need to leave home to come home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dye is excited to get started with FC London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have high expectations which I know we can fulfill,\u201d said Dye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He can\u2019t wait to hit the pitch in London before the fans of FC London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost of all I\u2019m really excited to meet all of the fans and people in the community to create a bond with and show them that we can compete at the highest level,\u201d said Dye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221; 93&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] FALL RIVER: A Fall River soccer player has landed a deal with a League 1 men\u2019s club in Ontario. FC London announced on their Instagram they have signed Lewis Dye, a Lockview High alum, to their 2023 roster for the upcoming season. Dye was a first team All Canadian in 2022-2023; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2,4676,2782,5],"class_list":["post-34582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fall-river","tag-fc-london","tag-lewis-dye","tag-lockview-high"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}