{"id":272349,"date":"2025-10-02T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272349\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:54:11","slug":"matt-hedges-to-sign-one-day-contract-to-retire-with-fc-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272349\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Hedges to sign one-day contract to retire with FC Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former FC Dallas<\/a> captain and club legend Matt Hedges will sign a one-day contract to officially retire as a member of FCD, the organization announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

The signing will take place on Saturday prior to FC Dallas\u2019 regular season home finale against the LA Galaxy.<\/p>\n

Hedges, the longest-tenured player in club history<\/a>, made 349 appearances across all competitions and scored 18 goals for FC Dallas from 2012\u201322. The 2016 MLS Defender of the Year, Hedges captained Dallas to the MLS Supporters\u2019 Shield and Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup double in 2016, cementing his place as one of the greatest defenders in MLS history.<\/p>\n

\u201cMatt is one of the most important players to ever wear an FC Dallas jersey,\u201d said FC Dallas President Dan Hunt in a statement. <\/p>\n

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\u201cHe embodied leadership, consistency, and excellence during more than a decade with our club. His legacy will live forever in our history, and we\u2019re grateful he chose to finish his career where it all began.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hedges, a two-time MLS Best XI selection (2015, 2016) and 2017 Concacaf Gold Cup champion with the U.S. Men\u2019s National Team<\/a>, joined Dallas after being selected 11th overall in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft. He became captain in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cFC Dallas is home,\u201d said Hedges in a statement. \u201cThis club and this community shaped my career and my life, and I couldn\u2019t imagine finishing my journey anywhere else. Wearing the captain\u2019s armband here, lifting trophies here, it has been an honor. I\u2019m proud to retire as an FC Dallas player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hedges will light the shield prior to the match against the LA Galaxy and be honored at halftime.<\/p>\n

Find more FC Dallas coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former FC Dallas captain and club legend Matt Hedges will sign a one-day contract to officially retire as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":272350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,10768,1596,15519,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-272349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brief","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-fc-dallas","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115305621990558355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272349","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=272349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}