EL PASO, Texas – Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez, 35, is giving it his best shot as he tries out for the El Paso Locomotive FC.<\/p>\n
The actor is best known by fans for his role as Dani Rojas in the hit television show ‘Ted Lasso.’<\/p>\n
Fern\u00e1ndez made an appearance with the Locos during the club’s preseason match Saturday against New Mexico United.<\/p>\n
He played about 30 minutes in the match that ended with the Locomotive FC being victorious, 4-1. <\/p>\n
As of now Fern\u00e1ndez is only trying out for the team, and he is not a current member of the Locomotive roster.<\/p>\n
The Locomotive FC released the following statement in regards to Fernandez:<\/p>\n
“We are excited to have Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez with our first team as a trialist. He saw 30 minutes of action in our 4-1 friendly victory against New Mexico United this past weekend. An official decision regarding his long-term status with the club will come at a later date.”<\/p>\n
The Locomotive FC will open the 2026 season at home against Colorado Springs. <\/p>\n
Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Southwest University Park.<\/p>\n
The match will be streamed live at kvia.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas – Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez, 35, is giving it his best shot as he tries out for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-190472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190472","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=190472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}