{"id":880648,"date":"2025-12-26T00:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/austin-fc-acquire-joseph-rosales-from-minnesota-united-mlssoccer-com\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T00:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:16:20","slug":"austin-fc-acquire-joseph-rosales-from-minnesota-united-mlssoccer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/austin-fc-acquire-joseph-rosales-from-minnesota-united-mlssoccer-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin FC acquire Joseph Rosales from Minnesota United | MLSSoccer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:<\/strong> <em>Trade<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ATX receive:<\/strong> Joseph Rosales<\/li>\n<li><strong>MIN receive:<\/strong> $1.5 million, sell-on %<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/austin-fc\/\">Austin FC<\/a> have acquired midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/joseph-rosales\/\">Joseph Rosales<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/minnesota-united-fc\/\">Minnesota United FC<\/a> in a cash-for-player trade, the clubs announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In exchange for the 25-year-old Honduran international, Minnesota receive $1.5 million. Additionally, the Loons retain a percentage of a future trade or transfer fee if Rosales is traded or sold above a certain monetary amount.<\/p>\n<p>Rosales has signed a new contract with Austin through June 2029 with an option for the 2029-30 MLS season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a pleasure for everyone at Minnesota United to watch Joseph make a meaningful impact over the past five-and-a-half seasons as a Loon,&#8221; said Minnesota United chief soccer officer and sporting director, Khaled El-Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since joining the club, Joseph has grown and developed into a consistent contributor in Major League Soccer and earned recognition at the international level with the Honduran national team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are incredibly proud of Joseph\u2019s development, and this move represents an opportunity that benefits both the club and the player at this stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rosales spent the past five seasons (2021-25) with Minnesota, tallying 5g\/18a in 128 matches across all competitions. He previously played for CA Independiente in Panama.<\/p>\n<p>Rosales earns frequent call-ups for Honduras and has 34 caps.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2025 season, Austin (sixth place; 47 points) and Minnesota (fourth place; 58 points) were both Audi MLS Cup Playoffs teams in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/austin-fc-acquire-joseph-rosales-from-minnesota-united\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Elida Mcnaught<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Trade ATX receive: Joseph Rosales MIN receive: $1.5 million, sell-on % Austin FC have acquired midfielder Joseph Rosales from Minnesota United FC in a cash-for-player trade, the clubs announced Tuesday. In exchange for the 25-year-old Honduran international, Minnesota receive $1.5 million. Additionally, the Loons retain a percentage of a future trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":880649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27493,2609,2005],"tags":[6918,8558],"class_list":{"0":"post-880648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-acquire","8":"category-austin","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-acquire","11":"tag-austin"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}