{"id":587558,"date":"2026-02-13T17:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/587558\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:35:27","slug":"fc-dallas-acquire-uruguayan-midfielder-joaquin-valiente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/587558\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Dallas acquire Uruguayan midfielder Joaqu\u00edn Valiente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:<\/strong>\u00a0Signing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/fc-dallas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FC Dallas<\/a> have acquired midfielder Joaqu\u00edn Valiente from Uruguayan top-flight side Defensor SC, the club announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Uruguayan is under contract through 2027-28 with options for the 2028-29 and 2029-30 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Valiente spent last season on loan at Ecuadorian powerhouse Barcelona SC, recording 5g\/6a in 48 appearances (all competitions).<\/p>\n<p>He previously produced 13g\/21a in 115 games for Defensor, helping the side lift consecutive Copa Uruguay titles (2023, &#8217;24).<\/p>\n<p>Valiente is Dallas&#8217; third signing from abroad this winter, following midfielders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/fc-dallas-acquire-israeli-midfielder-ran-binyamin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ran Binyamin<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/fc-dallas-acquire-swedish-midfielder-herman-johansson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Herman Johansson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas begin their 2026 campaign at home on Feb. 21 against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/toronto-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto FC<\/a> (8:30 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/fc-dallas-vs-toronto-fc\/umc.cse.72ktraecy8ny3v6w8g8cbosd2?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000%2Ctvs.sbd.4000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a>).<\/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:\u00a0Signing FC Dallas have acquired midfielder Joaqu\u00edn Valiente from Uruguayan top-flight side Defensor SC, the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":587559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,15519,37638,358,41877,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-587558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-fc-dallas","tag-sendtonews","tag-texas","tag-transfer-tracker","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116064532854175055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587558","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=587558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}