Last week, FC Dallas acquired Marco Farfan in a trade with LAFC for Ryan Hollingshead. This was an important trade for FC Dallas, as Hollingshead has played over 2,000 minutes in the last two seasons. However, I believe that FC Dallas are not just getting a young and promising player in Farfan, but a player who is already prepared to contribute with his passing and defending.
Farfan started out his career with Portland Timbers II, in the USL Championship (the 2nd tier of US Soccer). He progressed very quickly to the first team (making his debut in 2017) but bounced around the next two seasons between the first and second team, before finally maintaining some sort of consistency with the first team in the 2020 season.