{"id":4973,"date":"2017-03-14T21:39:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsoccer.com\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2017-03-14T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:39:42","slug":"earthquakes-nick-lima-poised-to-keep-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/2017\/03\/14\/earthquakes-nick-lima-poised-to-keep-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes’ Nick Lima Poised to Keep “Learning” after Recent Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose Earthquakes\u2019 rookie right back Nick Lima has had a dream start to his MLS career. Two games into the season and the 22-year-old has found the back of the net, <\/span>placed in MLS Team of the Week<\/span><\/a>, and penned himself into the Quakes record book.<\/span><\/p>\n

After shutting down Ignacio Piatti (one of the top attackers in MLS) and holding him to only one shot; Lima delivered\u00a0another emphatic performance against Vancouver Whitecaps. The Quakes’ second homegrown player in team’s history recorded (according to whoscored.com<\/em>) 10 crosses, two interceptions, and completed 85% of his 72 passes against Vancouver. Most importantly, he became Quakes first homegrown player ever to score in league play.<\/p>\n

With Lima’s immediate positive impact has come high praise from team captain and MLS fourth all-time leading scorer, Chris Wondolowski. The internationally capped forward confessed he is knee deep for the\u00a0Nick Lima Hype Train.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Chris Wondolowski on rookie @nick__lima<\/a>‘s fast start to the season: “I\u2019m on the Nick Lima hype train right now. In fact, I\u2019m driving it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Robert Jonas (@robertjonas) March 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Not only has the\u00a0young fullback\u00a0caught the eye of supporters and teammates, but of media as well. Lima recently\u00a0appeared on podcast<\/a>\u00a0The SBI Show<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0had a segment<\/a>\u00a0dedicated to him on NBC Bay Area News at 6 conducted by Colin Resch. Surprised by the gradation in his tender career with the Quakes, as well as the media that follows, Lima vows to continue developing as a player.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I mean, I knew guys come up and say, \u2018there is media, you know, you do well there is media, and it comes with that territory,\u2019 but I\u2019m just trying to keep my head down and get to work everyday,\u201d <\/em>said Lima. \u201cIt\u2019s fun you get to play soccer for a living and that\u2019s what\u2019s most important to me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Quakes\u2019 defender Marvell Wynne\u2019s injury was the opening door for the homegrown, for which, he has gone through and never looked back.\u00a0Although the season is in its premature\u00a0stages, Lima is poised to move forward with a learning attitude.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust every practice, everyday there is stuff to learn, you know as a new guy,\u201d <\/em>said Lima. \u201cHopefully get a lot of minutes and keep playing in games. I\u2019m gonna have to continue to learn and grow every game, because other teams will obviously figure things out and if I don\u2019t learn, it will be bad.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Jose Earthquakes\u2019 rookie right back Nick Lima has had a dream start to his MLS career. Two games into the season and the 22-year-old has found the back of the net, placed in MLS Team of the Week, and penned himself into the Quakes record book. After shutting down Ignacio Piatti (one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1874,"featured_media":4320,"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":[2,119,21],"tags":[260,435,1034,998,37],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mls","category-quakes","tag-chris-wondolowski","tag-ignacio-piatti","tag-marvell-wynn","tag-nick-lima","tag-san-jose-earthquakes"],"modified_by":"Joe Hojnacki","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","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\/1874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}