{"id":23440,"date":"2026-10-22T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/?p=23440"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:45:00","slug":"co-founders-of-professional-usl-soccer-team-atletico-dallas-visit-the-ahs-boys-soccer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/uncategorized\/2026\/10\/22\/co-founders-of-professional-usl-soccer-team-atletico-dallas-visit-the-ahs-boys-soccer-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-Founders of Professional USL Soccer Team Atletico Dallas Visit the AHS Boys Soccer Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>From Head Soccer Coach Jeff Waldrop:<\/p>\nWe had the Co-Founders of professional USL Soccer team Atletico Dallas stop by to visit the soccer team. \u00a0Matt Valentine and Sam Morton were Arlington High Class of 1992 classmates of mine. \u00a0They both played on the 1991 State Final Four soccer team for the Colts.\nTheir vision of starting up a pro soccer team will come to fruition next March when they will play their games at the Cotton Bowl. \u00a0They are also co-owners of the women&#8217;s pro team Dallas Trinity.\nMatt and Sam talked with the boys about the importance of relationships and friendships within the team and how their friendship started with Colt Soccer. \u00a0 The boys were surprised by a FaceTime with new signing Javier &#8216;Chichirito&#8217; Hernandez.\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-content\/files\/sites\/23\/2026\/10\/processed-A77CE545-6EFC-4C4E-ABB0-3537B6E47485-723x963.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"963\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 723px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 723\/963;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-content\/files\/sites\/23\/2026\/10\/processed-5EEB7D65-2478-4488-8EF0-FD0D760EED94-723x963.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"963\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 723px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 723\/963;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-content\/files\/sites\/23\/2026\/10\/processed-EE1FA45F-9DFA-4EC3-9786-1FA28A915426-723x963.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"963\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 723px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 723\/963;\">\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Head Soccer Coach Jeff Waldrop: We had the Co-Founders of professional USL Soccer team Atletico Dallas stop by to visit the soccer team. \u00a0Matt Valentine and Sam Morton were Arlington High Class of 1992 classmates of mine. \u00a0They both played on the 1991 State Final Four soccer team for the Colts. Their vision of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23440"}],"version-history":[{"count":"2","href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23446,"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23440\/revisions\/23446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}