Position: Midfielder
Hometown: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Birthday: 6/7/10
Pronunciation: john-ee | eye

2026 Happenings

Checked into match July 18, 2026, against Greenville Triumph SC and became the youngest player to do so for Fort Wayne FC in a professional match at age 16. Aye, a Fort Wayne resident on an academy contract, played two minutes in the match. … Aye already held the club record for youngest player in a match, checking into a friendly in USL League Two in 2025 when he was 15.

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Entering 2026

Aye joined Fort Wayne Football Club on an academy contract July 11, 2026, becoming the youngest player, at age 16, to join the roster since the club ascended to professional soccer this year. … Aye, one of the area’s brightest talents, has an impressive résumé that includes a match with Fort Wayne FC during 2025 in USL League Two, a pre-professional tier. When Aye entered an international friendly against Atlas Fútbol Club’s Sub-23 roster on June 28, 2025, at age 15, he became the youngest player to take the field in the Fort Wayne FC’s five seasons of play at that level. … Aye will be a junior at Northrop High School in the fall of 2026. … He spent the previous two seasons at North Side High School and was a First Team All-Conference selection in the Summit Athletic Conference. … Aye spent seven years playing locally for Fort Wayne United and spent one season, his U-14 year, in the Indy Eleven Academy system. … Good performances with Fort Wayne United in 2022 eventually led to an invitation to play in the Elite Academy League in Spain and he also had trials in the Netherlands with PSV Eindhoven. … He also played for the U.S. Youth Futsal National Team in 2022 and 2026, which took him to Argentina and England, respectively.