Sounders left back Nouhou and newly-added striker Felix Chenkam both hail from the same port city in Cameroon, a rarity for Major League Soccer teammates. They are part of an ever-growing and somewhat controversial pipeline of Cameroonians to MLS that the Sounders have been active participants in
They were teenagers from the same hometown, hoping to make it in soccer overseas from a place where getting noticed wasn’t easy.
Sounders left back Nouhou and newly-promoted striker Felix Chenkam had grown up soccer standouts a year apart in age in the Cameroon port city of Douala. They’d turned professional for rival local teams by their mid-teens, would later meet in a U20 tryout camp and then follow a similar route out of their Central African nation and into the United States.