{"id":251612,"date":"2026-04-29T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251612\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:39:07","slug":"orlando-city-sc-signs-ignacio-gomez-to-short-term-agreement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251612\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando City SC signs Ignacio Gomez to Short-Term Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. (April 29, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City SC has signed midfielder Ignacio Gomez to a short-term agreement, the club announced today. Gomez will be available for\u00a0selection\u00a0for Orlando City\u2019s Round of 16 match in the 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup against the New England Revolution today at\u00a0Centreville Bank\u00a0Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. ET on\u00a0Paramount+.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gomez, 19, previously made his MLS debut while on short-term agreement with the Lions\u2019 senior team against Houston Dynamo FC on April 18, before scoring his first MLS goal against Charlotte FC on April 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder\u00a0joined\u00a0OCB\u00a0on loan from Velez Sarsfield II of Argentina\u2019s Torneo de\u00a0Reserva\u00a0youth league on Jan. 5 and made his first-team debut in Orlando\u2019s most recent match against Houston Dynamo FC. A product of the Velez Sarsfield academy, Gomez has appeared in 54 matches for the Buenos Aires-based side, scoring four goals in just under\u00a03,000 minutes. He has also won two titles with Velez Sarsfield II, capturing the Copa LPF\u00a0Proyeccion\u00a0Inicial\u00a0in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 editions of the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More information on Major League Soccer\u2019s rules and regulations can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/about\/roster-rules-and-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TRANSACTION:\u00a0Orlando City SC signs midfielder Ignacio\u00a0Gomez\u00a0to a short-term agreement.<\/p>\n<p>TRANSACTION: Orlando City SC signs midfielder Ignacio Gomez to a short-term agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (April 29, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City SC has signed midfielder Ignacio Gomez to a short-term agreement, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105558,115,139,4786,18312,4788,141,140,105170,15995],"class_list":["post-251612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-ignacio-gomez","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-city-b","tag-orlando-city-sc","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlvshou-04-18-2026","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251612","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=251612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}