Main League Soccer enlargement workforce San Diego FC has signed winger Hirving “Chucky” Lozano because the membership’s first designated participant.
Lozano signed a four-year deal by the 2028 season, the workforce stated Thursday. Monetary phrases weren’t launched.
San Diego FC will grow to be the league’s thirtieth workforce when it begins play subsequent season.
“We’re thrilled to have him be a part of our Membership as we glance to construct a workforce that can problem for trophies. ‘Chucky’ is among the most adorned Mexican internationals on the planet, and we stay up for seeing him shine in San Diego and MLS in 2025,” San Diego FC CEO Tom Penn stated in a press release.
Lozano will stay along with his present membership, PSV Eindhoven within the Netherlands, by this 12 months. He’ll be formally transferred to San Diego on Jan. 1.
PSV not too long ago secured its twenty fifth total title within the prime Dutch league. Lozano had six targets and three assists in 24 matches in the course of the 2023-24 season alongside United States males’s workforce gamers Sergiño Dest, Malik Tillman and Ricardo Pepi.
“It is thrilling to be a part of historical past as we construct a Membership that can compete for championships in MLS. In each nation I’ve performed, I at all times attempt to depart a mark, and making an impression in San Diego and MLS is essential to me,” Lozano stated.
Lozano, a 28-year-old native of Mexico Metropolis, has additionally performed for Pachuca in Liga MX and Italian top-tier membership Napoli.
He has 18 targets in 70 appearances with the Mexican nationwide workforce and performed within the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. He was extra not too long ago left off Mexico’s Copa America squad, together with veterans Guillermo Ochoa and Raul Jimenez, in addition to striker Henry Martin.
The 2024 Copa America begins June twenty first with all video games on the FOX household of networks and streamed reside on the FOX Sports activities App. Pepi and Tillman have been included on USMNT coach Gregg Berhaldter’s 27-player roster; Dest, an everyday starter underneath Berhalter, is out for the match with a torn ACL.
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San Diego was awarded the thirtieth MLS membership in Might 2023. It’s owned by Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Mansour and the Sycuan Tribe, the primary Native American tribe to have an possession stake in an expert soccer workforce. The possession group additionally consists of San Diego Padres star third baseman Manny Machado.
Lozano, a product of Pachuca’s academy system, stated he was impressed by San Diego FC’s Proper To Dream residential academy, at the moment being constructed on the Sycuan Reservation in El Cajon, California. SDFC’s first workforce can even prepare on the facility.
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“The membership’s undertaking and plans for San Diego’s Proper to Dream Academy resonated deeply with the profession path I’ve had on this sport,” Lozano stated. “I recognized with the undertaking instantly and I’m assured we can assist a number of youth gamers from each side of the border.”
San Diego FC will play at Snapdragon Stadium, which additionally hosts the San Diego Wave of the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League and the San Diego State Aztecs soccer workforce.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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