Real Salt Lake Head Coach Mike Petke wasn’t trying to make a statement with his starting lineup on Wednesday in a preseason match against the San Jose Earthquakes in the midst of training camp in Tucson, Arizona. However, in starting five players who are products of the Real Salt Lake Academy in a lineup that didn’t look far removed from a full-strength 11, it put on display the depth of RSL’s roster of Homegrown talents that is on the verge of bursting even further onto the scene for the Claret-and-Cobalt.
In the match, 20-year-olds Justen Glad, Danny Acosta, Aaron Herrera and Brooks Lennon started along with 21-year-old Sebastian Saucedo, reuniting the five players that represented the U.