{"id":124563,"date":"2026-01-15T17:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124563\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:50:29","slug":"fc-dallas-sign-nolan-norris-to-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124563\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Dallas sign Nolan Norris to contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:\u00a0Extension<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/fc-dallas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FC Dallas<\/a> have signed homegrown defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/nolan-norris\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nolan Norris<\/a> to a contract extension through the 2028-29 MLS season with an option for 2029-30, the club announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old has recorded one assist in 20 MLS appearances for Dallas, including a career-high 13 regular-season appearances ahead of his Audi MLS Cup Playoffs debut in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Norris has represented the United States at the U-15, U-19, U-20 and U-23 levels, notably scoring twice in four appearances at last year&#8217;s 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/fifa-u-20-world-cup\/2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U-20 FIFA World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy to sign a new contract as I enter into the next step of my career,\u201d Norris said. \u201cIt shows the belief and confidence FC Dallas has in me, which I am very grateful for. It\u2019s always an honor to play for my childhood club and I thank God for the opportunity to continue doing so.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FC Dallas kick off their 2026 campaign on Feb. 21 at home against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/toronto-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto FC<\/a> (8:30 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/fc-dallas-vs-toronto-fc\/umc.cse.72ktraecy8ny3v6w8g8cbosd2?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000%2Ctvs.sbd.4000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/transfer-tracker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS Transfer Tracker presented by Avant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:\u00a0Extension FC Dallas have signed homegrown defender Nolan Norris to a contract extension through the 2028-29&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2124,53901,9441,12730],"class_list":["post-124563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-fc-dallas","tag-nolan-norris","tag-sendtonews","tag-transfer-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124563","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=124563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}