HOUSTON (July\u00a031, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo\u00a02\u00a0goalkeeper\u00a0Pedro\u00a0Cruz\u00a0will join\u00a0El Paso Locomotive\u00a0FC in\u00a0the\u00a0USL\u00a0Championship\u00a0on loan\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0remainder\u00a0of\u00a0the 2026 season,\u00a0both teams announced today.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cruz joined Dynamo 2 on a full transfer ahead of the 2025 season, and has now totaled\u00a037 appearances, nine clean sheets and 152 saves. This year,\u00a0the\u00a0shot\u00a0stopper recorded four shutouts and\u00a048 saves in the team’s\u00a0undefeated start\u00a0to the\u00a0season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a022-year-old has been called up to the first team three times on short-term loans last season\u00a0for MLS matches versus LAFC and the Portland Timbers,\u00a0and a Leagues Cup match against Mazatl\u00e1n F.C., where he made his first team debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TRANSACTION: Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0loaned\u00a0goalkeeper Pedro Cruz\u00a0to\u00a0the USL Championship\u00a0side\u00a0El Paso Locomotive FC\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0remainder\u00a0of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (July\u00a031, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo\u00a02\u00a0goalkeeper\u00a0Pedro\u00a0Cruz\u00a0will join\u00a0El Paso Locomotive\u00a0FC in\u00a0the\u00a0USL\u00a0Championship\u00a0on loan\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0remainder\u00a0of\u00a0the 2026 season,\u00a0both teams announced today.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cruz joined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6963,138,140,139,6964,97210],"class_list":["post-393658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-dynamo-dos","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-houston-dynamo-2","tag-pedro-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393658","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=393658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}