{"id":73441,"date":"2026-05-13T02:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/ted-lasso-actor-cristo-fernandez-signs-contract-with-professional-us-club\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:55:44","slug":"ted-lasso-actor-cristo-fernandez-signs-contract-with-professional-us-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/ted-lasso-actor-cristo-fernandez-signs-contract-with-professional-us-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Lasso actor Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez signs contract with professional US club"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>El Paso Locomotive describe forward as \u2018a great addition\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez portrayed Dani Rojas in the hit TV show<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Ted Lasso actor Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez has taken his role as a footballer from the small screen to the soccer pitch after signing a professional contract with the US second-tier side El Paso Locomotive FC.<\/p>\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez, who played youth football in Mexico before stepping away from the sport at the age of 15 owing to a knee injury, portrayed Dani Rojas in the hit Apple TV+ show about a British team with a US coach.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/13\/ted-lasso-cristo-fernandez-contract-professional-us-soccer-club\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso Locomotive describe forward as \u2018a great addition\u2019 Fern\u00e1ndez portrayed Dani Rojas in the hit TV show The Ted Lasso actor Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez has taken his role as a footballer from the small screen to the soccer pitch after signing a professional contract with the US second-tier side El Paso Locomotive FC. Fern\u00e1ndez, who &#8230; <a title=\"Ted Lasso actor Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez signs contract with professional US club\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/ted-lasso-actor-cristo-fernandez-signs-contract-with-professional-us-club\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ted Lasso actor Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez signs contract with professional US club\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}