{"id":1001722,"date":"2026-08-15T04:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1001722\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:56:18","slug":"houston-dynamo-transfer-ezequiel-ponce-to-elche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1001722\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo transfer Ezequiel Ponce to Elche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:<\/strong> Transfer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/houston-dynamo-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Dynamo FC<\/a> have transferred forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/ezequiel-ponce\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ezequiel Ponce<\/a> to LaLiga side Elche, the club announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The move opens a Designated Player roster spot for Houston. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/guilherme\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guilherme<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/mateusz-bogusz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mateusz Bogusz<\/a> are their remaining DPs.<\/p>\n<p>Ponce originally joined Houston from AEK Athens in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/houston-dynamo-acquire-ezequiel-ponce-in-club-record-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">club-record deal<\/a> in June 2024. He departs with 20 goals in 70 matches (all competitions).<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine striker now returns to the Spanish club he called home in 2022 and 2023 before moving to Greek Super League side AEK Athens.<\/p>\n<p>Houston are currently No. 4 in the Western Conference standings with 32 points through 18 matches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/transfer-tracker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS Transfer Tracker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Transfer Houston Dynamo FC have transferred forward Ezequiel Ponce to LaLiga side Elche, the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1001723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[21377,4345,15755,37638,358,41877,3187],"class_list":["post-1001722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-ezequiel-ponce","tag-houston","tag-houston-dynamo-fc","tag-sendtonews","tag-texas","tag-transfer-tracker","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117097751258308048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}