Position: Defender
Birthdate: May 22, 1997
Hometown: Salou, Spain
Height: 6-foot-3
Pronunciation: Arturo Ordóñez
Previous team: Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC
2025: Returns to Louisville for the second season of his multi-year contract.
Last Season: Led LouCity in three defensive categories – clearances (120), interceptions (51) and aerial duels won (110) – and scored two goals to earn All-League First Team honors for a second-straight season.
Before Louisville City: Ordoñez made his move to the United States in 2019 to play for Pitt, which made its first NCAA College Cup appearance a year later. After the Houston Dynamo selected him 39th in the 2022 MLS SuperDraft, he signed his first pro contract with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, starting all but three games as a rookie in 2022. Ordóñez joined LouCity after helping Pittsburgh claim its first silverware in the club’s USL Championship era: the Players’ Shield for best regular season record. The center back also finished his career in Pittsburgh as the 2023 USL Championship Defender of the Year in tandem with All-League First Team honors.
