Orlando City signed Tesho Akindele back in December of 2018, sending $100,000 of Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) in 2019 and $50,000 of General Allocation Money (GAM) in 2020 to FC Dallas in exchange for his services. The Canadian forward had previously spent time working with Oscar Pareja at FC Dallas, and he has been with the team for a year longer than Pareja himself has.
He signed a new contract with Orlando in July of 2021 with two option years and the Lions picked up his 2022 option last December.