the club announced it was moving on from Lozano<\/a>. General manager Tyler Heaps said the team would try to trade Lozano and find him the playing time needed to help his push for a spot on Mexico\u2019s World Cup team.<\/p>\nAlmost three months into SDFC\u2019s second MLS season, Lozano remains on the roster. He is still occupying a designated player slot. He is still training separately at the team\u2019s facility in El Cajon. And he is still not playing.<\/p>\n
As SDFC\u2019s attack searches for answers and the club navigates a nine-match winless run across all competitions, fans like Teran see one of the team\u2019s most talented players sitting unused. SDFC is 3-5-3 heading into Saturday\u2019s match against the Sounders (6-1-2) in Seattle.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook at what we accomplished last year. It was great,\u201d Teran said. \u201cI just feel like there\u2019s a void. There\u2019s a big void right now on the team. There\u2019s something that might have happened in the locker room, I guess, or there\u2019s a lot of speculation. It\u2019s only led to speculation because of the transparency that\u2019s lacking.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know there are always issues in every organization, but this is about trying to work it out for the betterment of the team and the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Varas has been firm when asked about a potential Lozano return. His answer: There is \u201cno chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, the situation continues to hover over the club. Teran said he has heard from SDFC supporters all across the country who either want Lozano brought back into the fold or simply want the situation resolved.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he first came, they glorified him,\u201d Teran said. \u201cAnd a lot of people bought tickets just because of him. So when they got tickets and started showing up, then one day you say, \u2018He\u2019s not going to be here anymore. This is what we decided,\u2019 and then all of a sudden, he\u2019s not there anymore.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of people still wearing No. 11 jerseys to the game today. It\u2019s hard to miss. It\u2019s really hard to miss.\u201d<\/p>\n
The club\u2019s position appears unchanged. Lozano\u2019s camp remains in limbo. And supporters are left to fill the silence with speculation, chants and, now, airborne protest banners.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings may look a little rough and rocky, but I\u2019m sure things will come around,\u201d Teran said. \u201cI\u2019m optimistic. We all want the same thing. We\u2019re all on the same team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you put me in a room with Chucky Lozano and coach Mikey Varas, I swear 100% something good is going to come out of that. And we won\u2019t even need a tequila bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, though, Lozano remains out of sight, but not out of the conversation.<\/p>\n
As SDFC keeps searching for wins, the biggest question surrounding the club has begun circling overhead.<\/p>\n
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Jacob Jackson
\nInjury bug bites again<\/p>\n
CJ dos Santos\u2019 return to the pitch lasted only long enough to remind San Diego what it had been missing.<\/p>\n
Dos Santos made his long-awaited season debut against LAFC only to exit in the 98th minute, when Denis Bouanga\u2019s sliding foot caught him flush in the face as the SDFC goalkeeper made a crucial save.<\/p>\n
Dos Santos had not appeared since Nov. 1, when he sustained a fractured cheekbone and orbital floor below his left eye during a playoff match against the Portland Timbers.<\/p>\n
\u201cC.J. has a nose injury,\u201d Varas said Thursday. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be long-term, but it\u2019s also definitely not a quick turnaround, so he just needs to focus on his recovery, to be able to play again and regain his rhythm, because he was heading in a really good direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
The injury forced San Diego to add cover this week, signing free-agent goalkeeper Jacob Jackson to a contract guaranteed through 2026 with a club option for the 2027 season<\/p>\n
For Jackson, it is a return home and a return to familiar surroundings. The 26-year-old San Diego native previously joined SDFC as a Stage 1 selection in the 2024 MLS re-entry draft and was part of the club\u2019s inaugural-season roster last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is becoming impossible to separate San Diego FC\u2019s first real stretch of adversity from a player supposedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[128569,17699,11387,128572,128568,23827,128571,12407,11408,11203,9223,74,1254,128570,76,75,11389,9678,44593],"class_list":["post-305233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-abraham-teran","tag-chucky-lozano","tag-cj-dos-santos","tag-designated-player","tag-free-chucky","tag-hirving-lozano","tag-jacob-jackson","tag-lafc","tag-mikey-varas","tag-mls","tag-mls-soccer","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-fc","tag-san-diego-fc-notebook","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sdfc","tag-snapdragon-stadium","tag-tyler-heaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305233","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=305233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}