BEYOND: How RSL's U-20 World Cup Bonds Were Formed

They don’t like talking about the game they played on August 3, 2012, but a 4-1 loss to Chivas USA in the first match of the Generation adidas Cup was the auspicious starting point of an incredible run for three Real Salt Lake Academy players that continues nearly five years later at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Brooks Lennon, Justen Glad and Sebastian Saucedo have come a long way since that unconventially warm day on the artificial turf fields of the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila, Washington, and now, joined by Aaron Herrera and Danilo Acosta, they represent a brotherhood of players raised in the RSL Academy in Arizona that will go from Claret-and-Cobalt to Red-White-and-Blue on the world’s stage in South Korea.

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