After welcoming his first child back in Germany, the star forward arrived stateside this week and is eager to lead the new-look Earthquakes in their quest to return to the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n
San Jose’s new Designated Player, who was acquired in late January<\/a>, boasts an extensive r\u00e9sum\u00e9. He’s recorded 153g\/86a in nearly 450 appearances across stints with German Bundesliga sides VFB Stuttgart and RB Leipzig, as well as English Premier League teams Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n The German international has been capped 57 times by his country and lifted seven trophies for club and country, including the UEFA Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup<\/a> with Chelsea.<\/p>\n Werner joins the club after Cristian Espinoza<\/a> signed with Nashville SC<\/a> in free agency, Chicho Arango<\/a> was loaned to Colombian side Atl\u00e9tico Nacional, and Josef Mart\u00ednez signed with Atlas in LIGA MX. That trio combined for 31g\/21a a season ago.<\/p>\n The Earthquakes began their 2026 campaign with an impressive 3-0 victory<\/a> over Sporting Kansas City<\/a> on MLS is Back weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n Can Werner help keep the good vibes flowing when Atlanta visit the Bay Area for Matchday 2?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After welcoming his first child back in Germany, the star forward arrived stateside this week and is eager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[23826,88,1084,90,89,6532,91800,53488],"class_list":["post-197427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-match-previews","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sendtonews","tag-sjvsatl-02-28-2026","tag-timo-werner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197427","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=197427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}