{"id":152471,"date":"2025-08-17T06:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T06:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/152471\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T06:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T06:34:10","slug":"san-antonio-fc-signs-forward-santiago-patino-to-multi-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/152471\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio FC signs forward Santiago Pati\u00f1o to multi-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAN ANTONIO <\/strong>\u2013 San Antonio FC announced on Saturday it had signed forward Santiago Pati\u00f1o to a new multi-year deal, bringing the 2022 USL Championship Final MVP back to the club for a third time. The transaction, pending league and federation approval. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to welcome back Santi to the SAFC family,\u201d said SAFC Sporting Director Marco Ferruzzi. \u201cHe is committed to the club and our project and is hungry to compete with his teammates and for San Antonio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pati\u00f1o was welcomed back to San Antonio on Saturday night as the club unveiled its\u00a0Team of the Decade at halftime of its contest against Lexington SC. He returns to the Alamo City having most recently competed abroad with First Division sides in Vietnam and Sudan. The Colombian is SAFC\u2019s all-time leading scorer, netting 26 goals in 48 appearances across all competitions from 2021-23. Pati\u00f1o also holds the club\u2019s record for most playoff goals with nine total in his postseason career.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was named 2022 USL Championship Final MVP after scoring a brace in the final to secure the club\u2019s first league title. He returned to San Antonio in August 2023, posting seven goals in 1,157 minutes of play to close out the season.<\/p>\n<p>Originally drafted with the No. 3 selection of the 2019 MLS SuperDraft, Pati\u00f1o began his professional career at Orlando City FC, playing two seasons with the Lions while also spending time on loan with Mexican side Cimarrones de Sonora. Before turning pro, Pati\u00f1o attending Florida International University, where he played collegiate soccer for four years. While at FIU, he scored 37 goals in 69 matches while being named an All-Conference USA selection three times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 San Antonio FC announced on Saturday it had signed forward Santiago Pati\u00f1o to a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,50,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-152471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-sanantonio","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115042718144671819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152471","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=152471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}