{"id":366163,"date":"2026-07-09T01:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366163\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T01:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:18:14","slug":"ted-lasso-star-cristo-fernandez-could-debut-for-el-paso-locomotive-fc-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366163\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Lasso star Cristo Fernandez could debut for El Paso Locomotive FC Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Ted Lasso star Cristo Fernandez, who portrayed &#8220;Dani Rojas,&#8221; is set to make his professional soccer debut for El Paso Locomotive FC on Saturday against New Mexico United. <\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, who signed with the club back in May, will be included in the Locos&#8217; 18-man squad to face their cross-state rivals on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/ted-lassos-cristo-fernandez-releases-bilingual-kids-book-futbol-is-life?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ted Lasso&#8217;s Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez releases bilingual kids book &#8220;F\u00fatbol Is Life!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Locos are coming off a 2-1 victory over Las Vegas Lights FC this past Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>El Paso currently sits on 19 points and in 7th place in the USL Championship Western Conference. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/ted-lasso-star-cristo-fernandez-signs-with-el-paso-locomotive-fc?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A Dream Come True for Ted Lasso Star Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez, Signing with El Paso Locomotive FC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Ted Lasso star Cristo Fernandez, who portrayed &#8220;Dani Rojas,&#8221; is set to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-366163","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\/366163","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=366163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}