FC Dallas locked up a pair of important contributors on Tuesday, when the club announced that they have signed Victor Ulloa and Ryan Hollingshead to multi-year contract extensions.
Signed as the club’s second-ever Homegrown player in July 2010, Ulloa has become an FCD mainstay over the past two seasons, finishing 2014 fourth on the team in minutes played and setting a club record for minutes played by a non-goalkeeper with 2,915 minutes in 2015.
The 24-year-old defensive midfielder, who captained first-place FCD for this first time in Sunday’s 2-1 win over Sporting Kansas City, has two goals and two assists in 70 career MLS appearances. He’s played in all eight of FCD’s matches this year – Dallas have a 4-0-0 record and have outscored teams 10-2 in matches in which he plays the full 90 minutes.
Hollingshead, 25, is currently in his third-year with Dallas. The UCLA product was drafted by the club with the 20th overall selection in the 2013 SuperDraft, but chose to step away from soccer for a year to his brother build a church in Sacramento, California.
He eventually joined FCD for the 2014 preseason, making the roster out of camp before earning his full MLS debut that May. The left back became a regular for Dallas in 2015, making 33 regular season appearances – 25 of which were starts – to help the club to their first-place regular season finish in the Western Conference. He has two goals and three assists in 51 career MLS matches, and seven appearances and six starts this year.
