Inter Miami CF introduced in the present day it has acquired attacker Ariel Lassiter from Houston Dynamo FC in trade for $100,000 in Normal Allocation Cash (GAM) – $50,000 in 2022 and $50,000 in 2023 – and extra GAM if performance-based incentives are met. The Costa Rican worldwide, who additionally holds United States citizenship, joins the membership after two seasons in Houston.

“We’re excited to proceed strengthening the squad forward of our 2022 season with the signing of Ariel. He has the flexibility to stretch groups along with his quickness and tempo, and appears to get behind to create scoring alternatives. He comes from a soccer household, brings good character to the membership and we consider he generally is a good match to our staff. We sit up for seeing him assist us obtain our objectives within the upcoming marketing campaign,” stated Inter Miami CF Chief Soccer Officer and Sporting Director Chris Henderson.

The 27-year-old versatile attacker’s expertise consists of 4 years with the LA Galaxy group (2015-2018), a 12 months and a half with the Houston Dynamo (2020-2021), and a 12 months and a half, taking part in three seasons in that point span, with Costa Rica’s top-flight facet Liga Deportiva Alajuelense (2019-2020) – the place he recorded a powerful quantity of 24 objectives and 16 assists in solely 65 appearances and helped them attain the ultimate within the 2019 Torneo Apertura and the 2020 Torneo Clausura – in addition to quite a few appearances for the Costa Rican Nationwide Workforce in outstanding worldwide competitions such because the Concacaf Gold Cup. 

The winger, who may play as a ahead, most lately featured for Houston Dynamo FC, first becoming a member of on mortgage in August 2020 and ultimately making the transfer everlasting in December 2020. In his time with the membership he made 35 appearances, 14 of them begins, for a complete of 1,485 minutes performed. In a condensed 2020 season, he tallied three objectives and one help in his 16 appearances. 

Previous to becoming a member of Houston, the Turrialba, Costa Rica native spent a 12 months and a half with Liga Deportiva Alajuelense in his native Costa Rica, signing in December 2018 and making his debut in January 2019. In 65 appearances with the staff he scored 24 objectives and registered 16 assists, together with a standout 2019 Liga FPD Torneo Apertura marketing campaign that noticed him assist lead Alajuelense to a top-of-the-table end with 12 objectives and 5 assists in simply 20 appearances, ultimately reaching the ultimate of the event. The winger as soon as once more starred within the 2020 Liga FPD Torneo Clausura, totaling eight objectives and 9 assists in simply 19 appearances and as soon as once more serving to the staff attain the ultimate of the event. 

Lassiter’s MLS profession started with the LA Galaxy, becoming a member of the membership in 2015, the place he first excelled with their USL staff LA Galaxy II, registering 34 objectives and 6 assists in 63 video games. Lassiter made his MLS debut on July 25, 2015 in opposition to Houston and went on to spend 4 seasons with the Galaxy, making 25 MLS common season appearances.

Earlier than coming to MLS, the Costa Rican-American made his skilled debut with Swedish membership GAIS within the nation’s second division, spending the 2014 season with the staff and tallying one objective and 5 assists. 

Lassiter has additionally featured on the worldwide stage, making 17 appearances for the Costa Rican males’s nationwide staff and scoring his first objective for Los Ticos in a July 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup match in opposition to Guadeloupe. Lassiter has featured for the staff in a number of outstanding competitions together with the Gold Cup, Concacaf Nations League and a FIFA World Cup Qualifier. On the youth worldwide ranges, Lassiter featured for each the US and Costa Rica. 

Lassiter attended the College of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2013, and in his lone season with the Mustangs the ahead earned Large West Convention All-Freshman staff honors.

Lassiter is the son of former MLS and United States Males’s Nationwide Workforce ahead Roy Lassiter, who received two MLS Supporters’ Shields and an MLS Cup, and registered 101 objectives in 200 MLS appearances between his stints with the Miami Fusion, Tampa Bay Mutiny, Kansas Metropolis and D.C.

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