Miami FC has signed Argentine playmaker Sebastián Blanco, who over seven seasons with the Portland Timbers recorded 46 goals and 52 assists across the regular season and playoffs in Major League Soccer. | Photo courtesy Portland Timbers FC
MIAMI – Miami FC announced on Friday the club had signed veteran playmaker Sebastián Blanco ahead of the 2025 USL Championship season. The transaction is pending league and federation approval.
“I feel very happy and have high expectations of being part of this project, an ambitious project, with new people and eager to grow and take the club to the top,” said Blanco. I am happy to have been welcomed from the beginning and am eager to start competing.”
Blanco returns to the United States after most recently competing in his native Argentina for top-flight club San Lorenzo. The 36-year-old became a legend for Portland Timbers FC in Major League Soccer over the prior seven seasons, recording 41 goals and 51 assists in 176 regular-season appearances for the side while also recording five goals and one assist in 11 MLS Cup Playoffs appearances.
With Blanco leading the way, the Timbers claimed the 2020 MLS is Back Tournament as he recorded three goals and five assists to be named the tournament MVP. He also led the Timbers to a pair of MLS Cup appearances in 2018 and 2021.
Blanco began his career in 2008 with Argentine club Lanús, where he recorded 19 goals and 27 appearances in 141 appearances before joining Ukranian club Metalist Kharkiv in the summer of 2011. Blanco recorded 10 goals and six assists in 68 appearances for Metalist in the Ukranian Premier League before a short stint at then-Premier League club West Bromwich Albion in the 2014-15 season.
He subsequently returned to Argentina with San Lorenzo, where he helped lead the club to the title in the Primera Division in 2016 and recorded nine goals and 10 assists in 54 appearances, and from there in 2017 joined the Timbers for the start of his remarkable career in the Rose City.