SEATTLE - Prior to the start of the 2017 MLS campaign, Seattle Sounders FC announced that for the first time in club history, six current Sounders Academy players would join the first team for preseason. While this was an exciting chance for supporters to get a glimpse of future stars of the first team, it presented an opportunity to several youth-team standouts to make an impression on head coach Brian Schmetzer and the rest of the technical staff.
A few months later, it’s plain to see that these young prospects have benefitted from their time with the first team.