{"id":2341608,"date":"2026-03-23T05:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2341608"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:08:23","slug":"lia-godfreys-1st-professional-goal-lifts-wave-over-royals-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lia-godfreys-1st-professional-goal-lifts-wave-over-royals-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lia Godfrey&#8217;s 1st professional goal lifts Wave over Royals &#8211; Field Level Media &#8211; Professional sports content solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lia Godfrey scored her first professional goal at the perfect time to lift the San Diego Wave past the 10-woman Utah Royals 2-1 on Sunday in Sandy, Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Godfrey\u2019s fellow sub, Kimmi Ascanio, tapped a pass to Kenza Dali, and Dali\u2019s one-timed through ball found Godfrey, who deposited it in the bottom left corner of the net in the 87th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Wave (1-1-0, 3 points) hung on from there for their first win of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes earlier, Utah defender Tatumn Milazzo was shown a second yellow card for a rough foul, and the Royals were down a player the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>They had tied the game on Lara Prasnikar\u2019s first career goal in the 67th minute. Mia Justus made four saves for the Royals (0-2-0, 0 points).<\/p>\n<p>Dudinha opened the scoring, and Leah Freeman had two saves for San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>The Wave struck in the 18th minute when Utah\u2019s Kate Del Fava made an ill-advised pass in her defensive third. Dudinha sprinted in front of Del Fava\u2019s target and one-timed her shot into an empty net with Justus out of position.<\/p>\n<p>Utah tied it when a Wave defender tried to clear the ball from the box but accidentally chipped it in front of Prasnikar, who hit a low dribbler to the far corner out of Freeman\u2019s diving reach.<\/p>\n<p>Per the Royals, it marked the first goal scored by a native of Slovenia in NWSL history.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__author--mobile\">\n<div class=\"article__author-profile\">\n<div class=\"author__avatar\">\n                                            \n                                        <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source fieldlevelmedia.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lia Godfrey scored her first professional goal at the perfect time to lift the San Diego Wave past the 10-woman Utah Royals 2-1 on Sunday in Sandy, Utah. Godfrey\u2019s fellow sub, Kimmi Ascanio, tapped a pass to Kenza Dali, and Dali\u2019s one-timed through ball found Godfrey, who deposited it in the bottom left corner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2341609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lia-Godfreys-1st-professional-goal-lifts-Wave-over-Royals.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341610,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341608\/revisions\/2341610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2341609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}