{"id":15757,"date":"2025-10-22T14:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/15757\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:06:09","slug":"houston-dynamo-keep-artur-dorsey-year-end-roster-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/15757\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo keep Artur, Dorsey: Year-end roster decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Dynamo FC<\/a> enter the offseason with just 19 players under contract, including only four defenders, after announcing their year-end roster decisions on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

First, the returning players: midfielders Artur<\/a> and Brooklyn Raines<\/a> had their 2026 contract options exercised, as did right back Griffin Dorsey<\/a> and winger Nelson Qui\u00f1\u00f3nes<\/a>. They’re all key pieces under head coach Ben Olsen.<\/p>\n

But between contract options that were declined, and soon-to-be free agents, Houston have moved on from 13 players. That list includes veteran defenders Franco Escobar<\/a> and Damion Lowe<\/a>, as well as midfielder Sebastian Kowalczyk<\/a> and forward Sergio Santos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dynamo are in discussions with forward Amine Bassi<\/a> about possibly returning. He has 21 goals in 114 appearances (all competitions) across the past three seasons, though his production declined this year.<\/p>\n

It all sets the stage for a busy winter, as Houston will look to improve on a 12th-place Western Conference finish (37 points) that put them four points below the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs line.<\/p>\n

Contract options exercised (5)<\/p>\n

Artur (M)
\nGriffin Dorsey (D)
\nBlake Gillingham (GK)
\nNelson Qui\u00f1\u00f3nes (F)
\nBrooklyn Raines (M)<\/p>\n

Contract options declined (10)<\/p>\n

Stephen Annor (F)
\nObafemi Awodesu (D)
\nEthan Bartlow (D)
\nErik Due\u00f1as (M)
\nMichael Halliday (D)
\nSebastian Kowalczyk (M)
\nDamion Lowe (D)
\nSergio Santos (F)
\nDaniel Steres (D)
\nJ\u00fanior Urso (M)<\/p>\n

Franco Escobar (D)
\nGabe Segal (F)
\nAndrew Tarbell (GK)<\/p>\n

Pablo Ortiz (D)
\nAmine Bassi (F)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo FC enter the offseason with just 19 players under contract, including only four defenders, after announcing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12731,56,844,58,57,9441,12730],"class_list":["post-15757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-artur","tag-houston","tag-houston-dynamo-fc","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-sendtonews","tag-transfer-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15757","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=15757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}