Luigi Mangione's cousin signs with pro soccer team in Brooklyn

Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News on Jan 15, 2026

Published in Soccer

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NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione‘s cousin has signed with a professional soccer team in Brooklyn, the same New York City borough where Mangione is imprisoned for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

In a statement on Wednesday, Brooklyn FC announced that Peter Mangione, a 24-year-old midfielder from Hunt Valley, Md., will join the team’s USL Championship roster.

A Penn State alum, Peter scored 31 goals as a college athlete and was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year in 2021, and then again in 2023. From there, he kicked off his professional career with the FC Cincinnati organization, playing with FC Cincinnati 2. He made 28 appearances and secured two goals and five assists across 2,218 minutes of play.

His cousin, 27-year-old Luigi Mangione, is facing multiple criminal charges in New York, Pennsylvania and federal court in connection with Thompson’s murder. The CEO was fatally shot in Midtown Manhattan on the morning of Dec. 4, 2024, in what authorities later dubbed a “premeditated, preplanned, targeted attack.”

Thompson had been visiting the city from Minnesota for an investor conference sponsored by UnitedHealthcare at The Residences by Hilton Club, where he was slated to give a speech later that day.

Police said Thompson was walking from his hotel toward the venue on West 54th Street near Sixth Avenue, when he was attacked by a masked gunman around 6:45 a.m. After a dayslong manhunt, Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Atloona, Pa.

Mangione is currently behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, located just miles away from where his cousin will be playing soccer.