Pedro Santos will be the sixth Designated Player to ever play for Columbus Crew SC in Major League Soccer. After putting DP tags on players from Argentina, Peru, Sierra Leone and Ghana, the club went in a different direction by pursuing a European player for the role.
The 29-year-old Portuguese winger was acquired from S.C. Braga in a transaction that had the largest acquisition transfer fee in club history. But to make the deal happen, it was also necessary to convince Santos to leave Europe and start a new adventure in the United States.