FC Dallas made a bold move ahead of the 2021 MLS SuperDraft to go out and snag a Homegrown player from the Philadelphia Union academy in midfielder Kalil ElMedkhar. The move was a first for the club to reach out to another team and trade for an HGP product.
ElMedkhar didn’t see a ton of minutes with the first team in 2021 as the club opted to take a route with him similar to other past Homegrown players by sending him down to North Texas SC for most of the season while bringing him in for some minutes off the bench at random points in the year.