TUKWILA, Wash. — No single image may have better encapsulated the seasons of teenagers Danny Leyva and Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez than the one after Thursday’s training session.
Fresh off getting the news that they had been officially named among the 21 players who will represent the United States at the upcoming U-17 World Cup in Brazil, they were left to bring in goals off the Seattle Sounders training pitch.
As if to further drive home the point about where they are on the pecking order, a day later they were back training with the Tacoma Defiance ahead of Friday’s penultimate home game of the USL Championship regular season against Colorado Springs before joining the U-17s next week.