{"id":289781,"date":"2026-05-12T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289781\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:49:26","slug":"ted-lasso-star-cristo-fernandez-signs-contract-with-usls-el-paso-locomotive-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289781\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ted Lasso’ star Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez signs contract with USL’s El Paso Locomotive FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yahoo<\/a>Tue, May 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM UTC<\/p>\n

Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez, who plays Dani Rojas on Apple TV’s “Ted Lasso,” has signed a contract to join El Paso Locomotive FC of the United Soccer League, the team announced on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCristo is a great addition to our roster, adding another attacking threat to our forward line,\u201d said Locomotive head coach Junior Gonzalez. \u201cHis passion for the game and leadership qualities for our locker room allow us to continue growing the positive culture we strive for as a club.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old Fern\u00e1ndez has been on trial with the team for the past two months<\/a> and even participated in a preseason match. That wasn’t the only soccer action Fern\u00e1ndez saw over the winter as the Chicago Fire confirmed that the actor had been on trial with the MLS club’s second team as well.<\/p>\n

Fern\u00e1ndez had soccer-playing dreams as kid, even suiting up for Mexico’s Tecos F\u00fatbol Club. But a serious knee injury ended that goal and rerouted his future toward acting.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandma and my mom used to say, \u2018Crist\u00f3bal only speaks, breathes, talks, dreams, everything f\u00fatbol\u2019 \u2014 soccer was literally my life,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez told NBC News in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Locomotive sit in fourth place in the USL Championship\u2019s Western Conference standings<\/a> with a 4-3-2 record. They next play May 27 at home against AV Alta FC.<\/p>\n

Season 4 of “Ted Lasso” premieres in August. There has been no confirmation if Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s character is returning to the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, May 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM UTC Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez, who plays Dani Rojas on Apple TV’s “Ted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76089,76091,138,140,9632,139,76092,106060,106061,76090,73650],"class_list":["post-289781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-cristo-fernandez","tag-dani-rojas","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-locomotive-fc","tag-el-paso-news","tag-fernandez","tag-junior-gonzalez","tag-leadership-qualities","tag-ted-lasso","tag-united-soccer-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289781","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=289781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}