{"id":112339,"date":"2026-01-06T04:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:35:08","slug":"el-paso-locomotive-fc-sign-midfielder-carl-sainte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112339\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Locomotive FC sign midfielder Carl Saint\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas &#8211; \u00a0El Paso\u00a0Locomotive\u00a0FC announced today that it has signed midfielder Carl Saint\u00e9, pending league and federation approval. The terms of the deal will not be disclosed per club policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarl is a player that we have been monitoring for some time,\u201d Technical Director Ray Saari said. \u201cHe possesses a highly sought after midfield skillset in the USL Championship. We believe he can make a significant impact in our team this year as we look to build on our success from last season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saint\u00e9 arrives in El Paso after playing in 28 matches in 2025 with Phoenix Rising FC. <\/p>\n<p>He finished the year with a duel success rate of 63 percent winning 51 of them while also winning 19 tackles at a success rate of 68 percent. <\/p>\n<p>He helped Phoenix advance to the Western Conference Semifinals this past November.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old was on loan in Phoenix from FC Dallas where he featured in two matches for the first team while mainly competing with North Texas SC from 2022 to 2024. <\/p>\n<p>He made his professional debut for Violette Athletic Club in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 2020 and helped them win Ligue Ha\u00eftienne that season.<\/p>\n<p>Saint\u00e9 debuted for the Haitian national team in March 2022 and has since compiled 24 appearances while helping Haiti reach their first World Cup since 1974. <\/p>\n<p>He is expected to be with Les Grenadiers next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Saint\u00e9 was born in Grand-Go\u00e2ve, Haiti and spent his youth career with various clubs across Haiti including Violette AC where he would eventually make his senior level debut. After a short stint with New Mexico United in 2021, he was then loaned to North Texas SC where he would then sign for the 2023 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas &#8211; \u00a0El Paso\u00a0Locomotive\u00a0FC announced today that it has signed midfielder Carl Saint\u00e9, pending league and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-112339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}