{"id":784117,"date":"2026-07-06T15:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784117\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:39:17","slug":"toronto-fc-acquires-midfielder-nelson-palacio-from-real-salt-lake-in-cash-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784117\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto FC acquires midfielder Nelson Palacio from Real Salt Lake in cash deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Toronto FC bolstered its midfield Monday, acquiring Nelson Palacio from Real Salt Lake in a cash-for-player trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The MLS club sent $1.1 million in cash and could pay up to an additional $550,000 if Palacio reaches performance incentives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Real Salt Lake will retain the right to a percentage of any future transfer fee involving Palacio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old Colombian made 55 MLS appearances over three seasons with Salt Lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The defensive midfielder spent last season on loan with FC Zurich in the Swiss Super League, making 34 appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Palacio has represented Colombia at the under-23 level and has one appearance with the senior national team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Toronto FC bolstered its midfield Monday, acquiring Nelson Palacio from Real Salt Lake in a cash-for-player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,82,3302],"class_list":["post-784117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}