{"id":670766,"date":"2026-01-03T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670766\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:22:37","slug":"ethan-horvaths-loan-spell-with-sheffield-wednesday-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670766\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Horvath\u2019s loan spell with Sheffield Wednesday ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Horvath\u2019s time at Sheffield Wednesday is over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Horvath\u2019s short-term loan spell with the EFL Championship side concluded Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/january\/02\/horvath-returns-to-cardiff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the club announced<\/a>. The 30-year-old will now return to League One side Cardiff City, but isn\u2019t expected to be part of the club\u2019s plans, sources close to the player confirmed to SBI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is interest in Horvath\u2019s services from clubs in England and MLS, sources added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to Ethan and all the best to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEthan came to us as third goalkeeper at Cardiff and did very well, better than we expected,\u201d Sheffield Wednesday manager Henrik Pedersen said in a statement. \u201cHe is a fantastic person and a very good goalkeeper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horvath was signed on loan in August after Pierce Charles suffered a serious injury which kept him out for close to four months. The veteran goalkeeper made 16 appearances for the Owls, registering two clean sheets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also earned Man of the Match honors in Sheffield Wednesday\u2019s EFL Cup victory over Premier League visitors Leeds United.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Horvath has played for several clubs in Europe including Sheffield Wednesday, Cardiff City, Nottingham Forest, Luton Town, and Club Brugge.<\/p>\n<p>He remains a goalkeeping option for the USMNT heading into the FIFA World Cup later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Horvath\u2019s time at Sheffield Wednesday is over.\u00a0 Horvath\u2019s short-term loan spell with the EFL Championship side concluded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-670766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115830203630070255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}