{"id":15637,"date":"2025-07-09T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/downs-usmnt-scorer-signs-for-southampton-premier-league-target\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:00:19","slug":"downs-usmnt-scorer-signs-for-southampton-premier-league-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/downs-usmnt-scorer-signs-for-southampton-premier-league-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Downs, USMNT scorer, signs for Southampton: Premier League target"},"content":{"rendered":"American forward Damion Downs joins Southampton from FC Cologne on a four-year contract. Downs, 21, participated in the Concacaf Gold Cup.\n\nIn the previous season, Downs stood out by scoring 10 goals and assisting five times, contributing to Cologne&#8217;s promotion to the Bundesliga after winning the German second division.\n\nSouthampton, who were relegated from the Premier League last season, will host Wrexham in their first Championship match on August 9.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0709%2Fr1517073_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Damion Downs\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Damion Downs competir\u00e1 en el Championship ingl\u00e9s la pr\u00f3xima temporada.\nMatt Watson\/Southampton FC via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We all play football to win titles. Winning my first title at 20 years old last year was a great feeling, and I hope to repeat it this year.<\/p><cite>Damion Downs<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I believe Southampton is a great club that should be in the Premier League, and that is my goal: to help the team as much as I can to bring the club back to the Premier League.<\/p><cite>Damion Downs<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nAccording to reports, Southampton would pay up to 10 million euros for the American player.\n\nDowns joins a growing list of American forwards in the English second division.\n\nHis Gold Cup teammate, Patrick Agyemang, is also close to joining Derby County.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American forward Damion Downs joins Southampton from FC Cologne on a four-year contract. Downs, 21, participated in the Concacaf Gold Cup. In the previous season, Downs stood out by scoring 10 goals and assisting five times, contributing to Cologne&#8217;s promotion to the Bundesliga after winning the German second division. Southampton, who were relegated from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[514,5601,139,1466],"class_list":{"0":"post-15637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-championship","9":"tag-damion-downs","10":"tag-premier-league","11":"tag-southampton"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}