{"id":343687,"date":"2025-10-30T18:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343687\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:03:17","slug":"la-galaxy-in-talks-for-fagundez-nascimento-returns-year-end-roster-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343687\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Galaxy in talks for Fag\u00fandez, Nascimento returns: Year-end roster decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fag\u00fandez&#8217;s contract option was declined after a two-and-a-half-year stint with the Galaxy. The 30-year-old helped LA win MLS Cup 2024 and is among the most accomplished homegrown players in MLS history (originally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/new-england-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England<\/a>), tallying 79g\/75a in 424 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Nascimento was on a season-long loan from Brazilian side Botafogo with a purchase option. The 21-year-old produced 6g\/4a in 28 games across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, veteran forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/christian-ramirez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Ram\u00edrez<\/a> received a contract extension and outside backs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/mauricio-cuevas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mauricio Cuevas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/john-nelson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Nelson<\/a> both had their contract options exercised.<\/p>\n<p>It all signals belief in LA&#8217;s overall roster, which recovered from a historically poor start to qualify for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/concacaf-champions-league\/2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Concacaf Champions Cup<\/a> (third place in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/leagues-cup\/2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leagues Cup<\/a>) and avoid a Wooden Spoon finish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contract options exercised (5)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mauricio Cuevas (D)<\/li>\n<li>Tucker Lepley (M)<\/li>\n<li>John Nelson (D)<\/li>\n<li>Isaiah Parente (M)<\/li>\n<li>Gino Vivi (M)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Christian Ramirez (F)<\/li>\n<li>Brady Scott (GK)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Contract options declined (2)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Miguel Berry (F)<\/li>\n<li>Eriq Zavaleta (D)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Diego Fag\u00fandez (M)<\/li>\n<li>Matheus Nascimento (F)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fag\u00fandez&#8217;s contract option was declined after a two-and-a-half-year stint with the Galaxy. The 30-year-old helped LA win MLS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,44461,2961,70315,224,5337,37638,41877],"class_list":{"0":"post-343687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-diego-fagundez","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-galaxy","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-sendtonews","16":"tag-transfer-tracker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115464438199895553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343687","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=343687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}