Atlanta United announced on Friday that it has sent 17-year-old Homegrown Player Efrain Morales on a season-long loan to their USL club ATL UTD 2.
With the MLS roster compliance date rapidly approaching this move makes complete logical sense. Morales, who doesn’t even have a full pro season under his belt yet, didn’t feature much for Heinze during preseason and appeared to be very low down the defensive pecking order. Another season for him to mature as a pro in the USL makes all the sense in the world.
The signing of Josh Bauer and the preseason acquisition of Alex DeJohn made Morales the odd-man out in the roster numbers game.