{"id":187454,"date":"2026-02-21T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187454\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:14:34","slug":"san-jose-earthquakes-2026-season-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187454\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes 2026 Season Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-jose-earthquakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">San Jose<\/a> enter their second season under five-time <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/de\/wettbewerb\/major-league-soccer-15\/spiele\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS<\/a> Cup champion Bruce Arena, who took over as sporting director and head coach in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Year one ended with a flutter despite scoring 60 goals (seventh in MLS), and now they&#8217;re looking to replace the attacking contributions of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/cristian-espinoza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Cristian Espinoza<\/a>, Josef Mart\u00ednez and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/cristian-arango\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Chicho Arango<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Earthquakes will lean heavily on German forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/timo-werner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Timo Werner<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/san-jose-earthquakes-acquire-timo-werner-from-rb-leipzig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">arrived in January<\/a> as arguably the biggest addition in club history. They have additional room for key additions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose enter their second season under five-time MLS Cup champion Bruce Arena, who took over as sporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-187454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}