{"id":1945,"date":"2026-08-05T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:30:00","slug":"crew-acquire-chilean-f-gonzalo-tapia-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"Crew acquire Chilean F Gonzalo Tapia on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-1200,h-675,fo-auto\/29515873.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Crew acquire Chilean F Gonzalo Tapia on loan\" title=\"Crew acquire Chilean F Gonzalo Tapia on loan\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<section id=\"0\" class=\" w-full\">\n<div class=\"xl:container mx-0 !px-4 py-0 pb-4 !mx-0 !px-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-1200,fo-auto\/29515873.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-400,fo-auto\/29515873.jpg 400w, https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-800,fo-auto\/29515873.jpg 800w, https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-1200,fo-auto\/29515873.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"Aug 4, 2026; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; General view of official balls prior to the warm up between Vancouver Whitecaps and Atlante FC during the Leagues Cup Phase One match at BC Place. Mandatory Credit: Simon Fearn-Imagn Images\" class=\"w-full\" sizes=\"1200px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><span class=\"text-0.8 leading-tight\">Aug 4, 2026; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; General view of official balls prior to the warm up between Vancouver Whitecaps and Atlante FC during the Leagues Cup Phase One match at BC Place. Mandatory Credit: Simon Fearn-Imagn Images<!-- --> <!-- --> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">\n<p>The Columbus Crew acquired forward Gonzalo Tapia on loan from Brazilian Serie A side Sao Paulo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">\n<p>The 24-year-old Chilean&#8217;s loan period runs through the 2027 MLS sprint season and includes a purchase option.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">\n<p>Tapia has recorded 30 goals and 10 assists in 172 career matches with multiple clubs across South America.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-4\">\n<p>&#8220;Gonzalo is a talented and hard-working player who brings quality and competition to our attack,&#8221; Crew general manager Issa Tall said. &#8220;We believe he has the attributes to make an immediate impact to the team. We&#8217;re excited to welcome Gonzalo to Columbus and look forward to integrating him into the group and seeing the contributions he&#8217;ll make.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adding reinforcements to our attack ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zp9V7KSJsE\">pic.twitter.com\/zp9V7KSJsE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Crew (@ColumbusCrew) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ColumbusCrew\/status\/2085011899310109049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-6\">\n<p>Before joining Sao Paulo in 2025, Tapia played for Argentina&#8217;s River Plate (2025) and Chile&#8217;s Universidad Catolica (2020-24). Internationally, he has scored three goals in 12 caps for Chile since his 2024 debut.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-7\">\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 4, 2026; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; General view of official balls prior to the warm up between Vancouver Whitecaps and Atlante FC during the Leagues Cup Phase One match at BC Place. Mandatory Credit: Simon Fearn-Imagn Images The Columbus Crew acquired forward Gonzalo Tapia on loan from Brazilian Serie A side Sao Paulo on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-1200,h-675,fo-auto\/29515873.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3650,3651,2841,3652,3654,3653],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-acquire","tag-chilean","tag-crew","tag-gonzalo","tag-loan","tag-tapia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}