The Earthquakes have acquired a brand new lead striker as they remake their roster underneath Bruce Enviornment, including Chicho Arango from Actual Salt Lake on Saturday by way of a commerce for $1.4 million basically allocation cash and a 2026 worldwide participant slot.
Arango, 29, led Main League Soccer in scoring halfway by the season earlier than a four-game suspension derailed issues.
The Medellín, Colombia native had 17 objectives and 11 assists in his first 22 video games, then was suspended on July 15 for violating the league’s anti-harassment coverage in an unspecified incident. He had one help and no objectives in 10 video games (together with the playoffs and one Leagues Cup match) after returning.
“I’m very excited for this new challenge in San Jose, together with everyone at the club, all of the fans and my family,” Arango stated in a press release launched by the membership.
RSL supervisor Pablo Mastroeni hinted at psychological hurdles for Arango over the second half of the season, saying he and Arango talked “ad nauseam” hoping to get him again to type.
“I left every conversation thinking to myself, ‘I don’t know if I reached him.’ And if I did, I don’t know the depth of what he’s going through,” Mastroeni informed the Salt Lake Tribune on the finish of the season.
Arango, who will occupy a delegated participant spot, arrived in Salt Lake halfway by the 2023 season from Pachuca of Liga MX, the place he had 5 objectives and two assists in 11 matches. He had six objectives in 11 video games for Actual to finish that season earlier than his red-hot begin to 2024.
Earlier than heading to Mexico, he spent a 12 months and a half at Los Angeles FC, scoring 30 objectives in 51 matches and successful the league’s Newcomer of the Yr award in 2021 and the MLS Cup in 2022. Earlier in his profession, he hung out in Spain and Portugal.
Arango is the newest in a collection of adjustments for the Quakes after bringing in Enviornment, the MLS all-time wins chief, as coach and sporting director.
They let striker Jeremy Ebobisse enter free company, making room up high for Arango, and allowed captain and midfielder Jackson Yueill to depart.
The final allocation cash will break all the way down to $700,000 every of the following two seasons. They despatched $500,000 in 2025 GAM and a 2025 worldwide slot to New England final month in trade for middle again Dave Romney and midfielders Mark-Anthony Kaye and Ian Harkes. Additionally they introduced again defender and Castro Valley native Nick Lima from the Revolution in free company 5 seasons after he left San Jose in a commerce.
Initially Revealed: January 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM PST
