{"id":407085,"date":"2026-08-15T04:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407085\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:58:18","slug":"houston-dynamo-transfer-ezequiel-ponce-to-elche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407085\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo transfer Ezequiel Ponce to Elche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Transfer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/houston-dynamo-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Dynamo FC<\/a> have transferred forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/ezequiel-ponce\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ezequiel Ponce<\/a> to LaLiga side Elche, the club announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The move opens a Designated Player roster spot for Houston. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/guilherme\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guilherme<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/mateusz-bogusz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mateusz Bogusz<\/a> are their remaining DPs.<\/p>\n<p>Ponce originally joined Houston from AEK Athens in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/houston-dynamo-acquire-ezequiel-ponce-in-club-record-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">club-record deal<\/a> in June 2024. He departs with 20 goals in 70 matches (all competitions).<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine striker now returns to the Spanish club he called home in 2022 and 2023 before moving to Greek Super League side AEK Athens.<\/p>\n<p>Houston are currently No. 4 in the Western Conference standings with 32 points through 18 matches.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/transfer-tracker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS Transfer Tracker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Transfer Houston Dynamo FC have transferred forward Ezequiel Ponce to LaLiga side Elche, the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[70218,56,844,58,57,9441,12730],"class_list":["post-407085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-ezequiel-ponce","tag-houston","tag-houston-dynamo-fc","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-sendtonews","tag-transfer-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407085","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=407085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}