{"id":66076,"date":"2026-02-11T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/us-midfielders-bethune-and-hutton-move-in-pair-of-blockbuster-1m-nwsl-trades\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:02:45","slug":"us-midfielders-bethune-and-hutton-move-in-pair-of-blockbuster-1m-nwsl-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/us-midfielders-bethune-and-hutton-move-in-pair-of-blockbuster-1m-nwsl-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"US midfielders Bethune and Hutton move in pair of blockbuster $1m NWSL trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Bethune traded from Spirit to Kansas City for $1m<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Hutton departs Current for Bay FC in $1.1m move<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Moves shake up landscape a month before season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two of the best young midfielders in US women\u2019s soccer were on the move Wednesday in a pair of seven-figure trades, shuffling up the NWSL landscape a month before the season begins.<\/p>\n<p>Croix Bethune, the 2024 rookie and midfielder of the year, was traded from the Washington Spirit to the Kansas City Current for $1m. In a separate move, Kansas City traded Claire Hutton, a 2025 midfielder of the year finalist, to Bay FC in a $1.1m transaction.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/feb\/11\/us-midfielders-bethune-hutton-move-in-pair-of-blockbuster-nwsl-trades\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethune traded from Spirit to Kansas City for $1m Hutton departs Current for Bay FC in $1.1m move Moves shake up landscape a month before season Two of the best young midfielders in US women\u2019s soccer were on the move Wednesday in a pair of seven-figure trades, shuffling up the NWSL landscape a month before &#8230; <a title=\"US midfielders Bethune and Hutton move in pair of blockbuster $1m NWSL trades\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/us-midfielders-bethune-and-hutton-move-in-pair-of-blockbuster-1m-nwsl-trades\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US midfielders Bethune and Hutton move in pair of blockbuster $1m NWSL trades\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}