TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Loan<\/p>\n
Orlando City<\/a> have loaned forward Nicol\u00e1s Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> to Colombian top-flight side Atl\u00e9tico Nacional, the club announced Thursday.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old Colombian’s loan lasts through 2026 with a purchase option.<\/p>\n Orlando acquired Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> ahead of the 2025 campaign from Colombian side Fortaleza CEIF, inking him to a U22 Initiative deal. He tallied 1g\/1a in 17 appearances (all competitions) last season.<\/p>\n \u201cThis move gives Nico the opportunity to earn consistent playing time while also opening up one of our U22 Initiative spots for 2026 while he\u2019s away,\u201d said general manager & sporting director Ricardo Moreira.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe believe this is a great chance for him to further his development at a Colombian giant, while providing us more flexibility for our roster in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n The Lions’ 2026 season begins on Feb. 21 against Red Bull New York<\/a> (7:30 pm ET | Apple TV<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Loan Orlando City have loaned forward Nicol\u00e1s Rodr\u00edguez to Colombian top-flight side Atl\u00e9tico Nacional, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4793,139,4788,141,140,4959,5774],"class_list":{"0":"post-110666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-nicolas-rodriguez","9":"tag-orlando","10":"tag-orlando-city-sc","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-news","13":"tag-sendtonews","14":"tag-transfer-tracker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}