Sandy • When Donny Toia first arrived on the scene of Major League Soccer, he spent his rookie year on the outside looking in. It was 2011, and the Arizona native had just become the first-ever homegrown signing for Real Salt Lake.
But Toia did not play a single minute his rookie year, and was released from the club before the next season. He meandered through five teams over the next seven years — even spending two years in leagues lower than MLS — and returned to RSL before this season via the Re-Entry Draft as an entirely different player.