{"id":424353,"date":"2026-09-02T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424353\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:54:10","slug":"fc-dallas-acquire-nigerian-winger-daniel-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424353\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Dallas acquire Nigerian winger Daniel Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Signing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/fc-dallas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FC Dallas<\/a> have acquired forward Daniel Job from Norwegian second-division side Kongsvinger IL, the club announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Job is under contract through the 2029-30 season with an option for 2030-21. He will occupy U22 Initiative and international slots.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the transaction, FC Dallas acquired Job\u2019s Discovery Priority Rights from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/red-bull-new-york\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull New York<\/a> in exchange for $125,000 in 2027 General Allocation Money (GAM).<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Nigerian winger is in his first season with Kongsvinger and has featured in 20 matches, registering 8g\/9a.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Daniel is a promising young winger who has excelled in Norway and generated a lot of interest from clubs across Europe,\u201d said chief soccer officer Andre Zanotta.\u00a0\u201cWe believe he has a lot of upside and the qualities to continue developing at FC Dallas, and we\u2019re excited to have him here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His speed and ability to attack defenders will give us another dynamic option in the final third and add another element to our attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Job previously played for Sarpsborg 08 FF and Egersunds IK. Since his professional career began in 2024, he has made 63 appearances across all competitions and tallied 15g\/15a.<\/p>\n<p>FC Dallas are currently fifth (34 points; 9W-6L-7D) in a jam-packed Western Conference.\u00a0<\/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: Signing FC Dallas have acquired forward Daniel Job from Norwegian second-division side Kongsvinger IL, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2124,9441,12730],"class_list":["post-424353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-fc-dallas","tag-sendtonews","tag-transfer-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424353","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=424353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}