{"id":194986,"date":"2026-03-07T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194986\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:59:08","slug":"houston-dynamo-2-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194986\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (March 7, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0continue their four-match homestand to start their 2026\u00a0MLS NEXT Pro\u00a0season on Sunday, March 8, hosting Tacoma Defiance at\u00a0SaberCats Stadium. The fixture is set to kick off at 6:00 p.m. CT, and fans can claim free tickets to every Dynamo Dos home match via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/dynamo2\/tickets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tixr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dynamo 2 opened their fifth MLSNP campaign under the direction of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/news\/houston-dynamo-fc-promote-marcelo-santos-to-first-team-assistant-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interim head coach<\/a>\u00a0Jeremy Hurdle\u00a0last Sunday, earning a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/dynamo2\/news\/houston-dynamo-2-kicks-off-2026-mls-next-pro-season-with-2-0-home-victory-over-colorado-rapids-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-0 home victory<\/a>\u00a0versus Colorado Rapids 2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/dynamo2\/news\/houston-dynamo-2-goalkeeper-pedro-cruz-wins-2025-goalie-wars-title-at-mls-all-star-skills-challenge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">**2025 Goalie Wars**\u00a0winner<\/a>\u00a0Pedro Cruz\u00a0managed\u00a0two saves to help Houston post a clean sheet in their first contest of the season, while Dynamo Academy product\u00a0Samir Mohammad\u00a0notched his first professional goal and midfielder\u00a0D\u2019Alessandro Herrerascored his first goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The win also featured several Dynamo 2 debuts, including forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/dynamo2\/news\/houston-dynamo-2-sign-three-2026-mls-superdraft-picks-to-mls-next-pro-contracts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">**Austin**\u00a0**Brummett**<\/a>, midfielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/dynamo2\/news\/houston-dynamo-2-sign-brazilian-talent-gustavo-dohmann-on-loan-from-fluminense-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">**GustavoDohmann**<\/a>, midfielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/dynamo2\/news\/houston-dynamo-2-sign-three-2026-mls-superdraft-picks-to-mls-next-pro-contracts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">**Gilberto**\u00a0**Rivera**<\/a>\u00a0and forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/dynamo2\/news\/houston-dynamo-2-sign-brazilian-attacker-arthur-sousa-on-loan-from-red-bull-bragantino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">**Arthur**\u00a0**Sousa**<\/a>, all of whom were signed this offseason. Additionally, Mohammad made his first professional start in the midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Tacoma opened the season with one point after drawing 2-2 versus LAFC2 and falling 4-1 in the penalty shootout. The two goals in regulation were scored by Yu Tsukanome and Mark Bronnik. The team currently sits ninth in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, two potential Dynamo 2 players made their first team debuts last Saturday. Midfielder\u00a0Matthew Aranabecame the youngest player in Dynamo history to earn first team minutes when he entered the match in the 88th\u00a0minute. The 15-year-old recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/news\/houston-dynamo-fc-sign-houston-native-midfielder-matthew-arana-as-homegrown-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed a Homegrown contract<\/a>, becoming the 20th\u00a0Dynamo Academy product to sign a Homegrown first team contract. Rookie Dynamo 2 defender\u00a0Agustin Resch, who was signed to a short-term loan for tonight\u2019s match, made his debut to start the second half. The towering Argentinian defender was selected by the Dynamo in the 2026 MLS SuperDraft out of Seton Hall University and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/dynamo2\/news\/houston-dynamo-2-sign-three-2026-mls-superdraft-picks-to-mls-next-pro-contracts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently signed<\/a>\u00a0with Dos.<\/p>\n<p>Dos next host Portland Timbers2 on Sunday, March 15, with kickoff scheduled for 6:00 p.m. CT at SaberCats Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (March 7, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0continue their four-match homestand to start their 2026\u00a0MLS NEXT Pro\u00a0season on Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6963,56,6964,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-194986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-dynamo-dos","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-dynamo-2","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194986","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=194986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}