{"id":208208,"date":"2026-03-17T12:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208208\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:17:14","slug":"mateusz-bogusz-puts-on-late-show-for-houston-dynamo-energy-moment-of-the-matchday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208208\/","title":{"rendered":"Mateusz Bogusz puts on late show for Houston Dynamo | Energy Moment of the Matchday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Polish international scored the second-latest goal in MLS history, and the latest-ever tally in regular-season play, with a 105th-minute strike that secured a wild <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2026\/matches\/houvspor-03-14-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-2 home win<\/a> over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/portland-timbers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Timbers<\/a>, and earned him Energy\u00a0Moment of the Matchday presented by Celsius honors for Matchday 4.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old, acquired this offseason for a reported $10 million fee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/houston-dynamo-acquire-mateusz-bogusz-from-cruz-azul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from LIGA MX side Cruz Azul<\/a>, dramatically opened his Dynamo account to give his new club their second victory of the 2026 MLS campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is what we&#8217;re trying to build here. We want guys that can win,&#8221; head coach Ben Olsen said of Bogusz and fellow winter Designated Player signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/guilherme\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guilherme<\/a>, who also found the back of the net against Portland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They win now, have personality, have experience, have been through everything that this crazy game offers, and they understand how to make plays,&#8221; Olsen added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Again, we&#8217;re better in the box, and we&#8217;re better in the final third, so that gives you a chance in this league.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bogusz and the Dynamo will look to build on their Matchday 4 heroics when visiting Texas rivals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/fc-dallas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FC Dallas<\/a> on Saturday night (8:30 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/fc-dallas-vs-houston-dynamo-fc\/umc.cse.77k0y27wchxi9nus9bw0n8a0g?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000%2Ctvs.sbd.4000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple TV)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Polish international scored the second-latest goal in MLS history, and the latest-ever tally in regular-season play, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[81700,56,844,58,57,80832,59944,9441],"class_list":["post-208208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-energy-moment-of-the-matchday","tag-houston","tag-houston-dynamo-fc","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houvspor-03-14-2026","tag-mateusz-bogusz","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208208","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=208208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}