All Aboard: The Nouhou train is full speed ahead

Editor’s note: This is the lead feature in Issue 11 of Sounders Monthly, Sounders FC’s original magazine. They are available for free at The NINETY, GuestLink Services locations, Soccer Celebration and Membership Central.

During the Seattle Sounders run to their 2016 MLS Cup title, Nouhou watched, quietly, from a distance. Then a 19-year-old Sounders FC 2 player in his first USL season after transferring from Rainbow FC in Cameroon, Nouhou would sit in the stands at CenturyLink Field like everyone else.

One day I need to be there, Nouhou thought. One day I need to be there as well.

Nouhou was not sure when that day would eventually come, but it came sooner than he had imagined. After playing…