The 30-year-old Argentine joined San Jose ahead of the 2019 season and has recorded 36g\/70a in 218 regular-season matches. Espinoza has twice earned MLS All-Star honors, including this past season (2023, ’25).<\/p>\n
Additionally, Venezuelan striker Josef Mart\u00ednez<\/a> had his contract option declined after tallying 14g\/2a in 30 games this past season with San Jose. The former Landon Donovan MLS MVP and Golden Boot presented by Audi winner is also eligible for free agency.<\/p>\n For select players who are either out of contract or had their options declined, conversations about returning to the Earthquakes in 2026 are still ongoing.<\/p>\n San Jose’s roster stands at 27 players heading into next year. They narrowly missed out on the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs in their first season under head coach and sporting director Bruce Arena, finishing 10th in the Western Conference (41 points; 11W-15L-8D).<\/p>\n Contract options exercised (12)<\/p>\n Noel Buck (M) Contract options declined (5)<\/p>\n Wilson Eisner (D) San Jose Earthquakes roster<\/a> | Updates for every team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 30-year-old Argentine joined San Jose ahead of the 2019 season and has recorded 36g\/70a in 218 regular-season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[41818,88,1084,90,89,6532,16459],"class_list":["post-71156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-cristian-espinoza","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sendtonews","tag-transfer-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71156","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=71156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVitor Costa (D)
\nEarl Edwards Jr. (GK)
\nNick Fernandez (M)
\nMax Floriani (D)
\nBenji Kikanovi\u0107 (D)
\nBeau Leroux (M)
\nFrancesco Montali (GK)
\nJamar Ricketts (D)
\nReid Roberts (D)
\nJack Skahan (F)
\nNiko Tsakiris (M)<\/p>\n
\nMark-Anthony Kaye (M)
\nJosef Mart\u00ednez (F)
\nRodrigues (D)
\nBruno Wilson (D)<\/p>\n