*Update* - Friday FC Dallas announced the loan signing on Lizarazo from Cruz Azul. The Colombian midfielder arrives in Dallas out of form and shape. Coach Oscar Pareja arrives at this signing fully aware of what he's getting, - from the club's press release: "I am going to give him a time frame of two or three months to get him fit," said Pareja. "After that, he'll need to face some competition [to get match fit]. He needs some games, some repetition, but I am glad to be the team that gives him this opportunity. He needs this chance and we were willing to bring a guy that we know will help us in the long run."

Lizarazo is undoubtedly a player with high upside, but after leaving a great spell with Deportivo Cali, his move last year to Cruz Azul was an injury plagued disaster. This continues the trend of Dallas' willingness to bring in soccer reclamation projects with potentially high return and low risk.

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Late Thursday, Francisco J Velez, a broadcaster for RCN (a Colombian TV network), tweeted out the above picture of FC Dallas Technical Director Fernando Clavijo, FCD Director of Soccer Operations and Assistant Technical Director Luiz Muzzi, and Carlos Lizarazo most recently of Cruz Azul in Mexico. Carlos Lizarazo is labeled in the pic as a "Jugador FC Dallas" which means Player FC Dallas.

The implication, obviously, is that FC Dallas is signing, or has signed, the young Mr Lizarazo.

Here's a video of Carlos Lizarazo I found on youtube.

Lizarazo, 24, has previously been linked to FC Dallas so it won't be a total surprise if FC Dallas has landed the player.