{"id":21050,"date":"2019-02-07T14:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonsoccer.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=21050"},"modified":"2019-05-02T16:50:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T20:50:48","slug":"forge-fc-adding-midfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/2019\/02\/07\/forge-fc-adding-midfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Forge FC Adding to Its Midfield With Giuliano Frano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hamilton, ON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonsoccer.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/01\/29\/forge-fc-supporter-group-barton-batallion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forge FC<\/a>\u00a0announced the club has signed Canadian midfielder Giuliano Frano from Sigma FC.<\/p>\n<h2>Forge FC rounding out its midfield with Giuliano Frano<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frano is a 25-year-old midfielder from Mississauga, Ontario. Having been a two-time League1 Ontario Best XI and All-Star\u00a0with Sigma FC, he adds a good mix of experience while still having many years to grow with the club.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the last two seasons, he registered\u00a011 goals\u00a0while playing for Forge Head Coach Bobby Smyrniotis. Before that, he played 2015-16 at Seattle Sounders FC 2 and Whitecaps FC 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cWe\u2019re very happy to be adding Giuliano to our squad. Giuliano\u2019s excellent play over the last four years in both the USL and League1 Ontario will definitely be an asset to our building process as a team. Beyond his football qualities, he is a fierce competitor and will bring a great mentality and work ethic to the pitch every day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>~Bobby Smyrniotis, Technical Director and Head Coach of Forge FC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Giuliano Frano - League 1 Ontario\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_vuEpa_ILtI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonsoccer.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/01\/31\/experience-key-jim-brennans-york9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forge FC will host York9 FC<\/a> at Tim Hortons Field in the Canadian Premier League\u2019s inaugural match Saturday, April 27 at 1 p.m.\u00a0For season ticket information, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgefootball.club\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.forgefootball.club&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1549652300654000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE-sCJ7f5ILTYj1CD7a8y2vb6MjKw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.forgefootball.club<\/a>. The game will be televised on CBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton, ON Forge FC\u00a0announced the club has signed Canadian midfielder Giuliano Frano from Sigma FC. Forge FC rounding out its midfield with Giuliano Frano Frano is a 25-year-old midfielder from Mississauga, Ontario. Having been a two-time League1 Ontario Best XI and All-Star\u00a0with Sigma FC, he adds a good mix of experience while still having many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2782,2783],"tags":[2800,1190,2785,2787,2801],"class_list":["post-21050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpl","category-hamilton-forge-fc","tag-bobby-smyrniotis","tag-canadian-premier-league","tag-cpl","tag-forge-fc","tag-giuliano-frano"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}