Playmaker signs from USL Championship to bolster Owls’ ranks
OMAHA, Nebr. (February 11, 2026) – Union Omaha has signed midfielder Edrey Cáceres, pending league and federation approval. Cáceres marks the Owls’ second signing of the winter from Lexington SC of the USL Championship, this time to bolster the center of the park.
Cáceres will be taking on his second professional season with Union Omaha after leaping from college to the USL Championship in 2025. With Lexington SC, he made seven appearances, usually as a part of a double pivot in a 4-2-3-1 formation. The midfielder also has USL League Two experience via Des Moines Menace in 2024, though he wasn’t on the team for their matchup against Union Omaha in that year’s U.S. Open Cup.
“From the first conversation that I had with Edrey, you can feel his desire to be successful, and we love that hunger,” said Head Coach Vincenzo Candela. “We are very happy for him to join our great group. Edrey’s quality on the ball and technical ability is going to help us control games in possession and create more in the final third.”
Cáceres arrives with an impressive pedigree as well. As a youth player he rose through the ranks of Houston Dynamo’s academy, even being named their Academy Player of the Year in his final season there in 2019. That year also marked his first call-up to the El Salvadoran U-23 national team. Cáceres was also a four-year player at Marquette University, making the All-BIG EAST Second Team three years in a row. As a graduate student at UCLA in 2024, he had six goals and two assists while appearing in all 19 matches for the Bruins (starting all but one of those).
- Name Pronunciation: [ED-ree kah-SAIR-ess]
- Position: Midfielder
- Height: 5’6”
- Weight: 150 lbs.
- Date of Birth: 04/16/2002
- Born: Houston, Texas
- Previous Team: Lexington SC
2026 ticket packages are now available. The Owls are moving downtown to Creighton’s Morrison Stadium for the 2026 USL League One season, making for an exciting new atmosphere in the heart of Omaha. Fans can call 402-884-8053 for more information.
ABOUT UNION OMAHA
Union Omaha, the 2021 and 2024 USL League One Champions, is the premier professional soccer team in the state of Nebraska. USL League One is a United States Soccer Federation-sanctioned professional men’s soccer league that occupies the third tier of the American soccer landscape, below USL Championship (tier two) and the newly announced top-tier USL Premier, launching in 2028. Union Omaha will play its 2026 USL League One home matches at Morrison Stadium in downtown Omaha. The team is led by Chief Operating Officer Alexis Boulos in the front office and by Head Coach Vincenzo Candela on the pitch.
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