Since 2013, four members of the Impact Academy have graduated to the senior team with professional contracts, only to find themselves cut loose. These players have all bounced around, and still play soccer professionally, albeit in colours other than Impact blue. Today, Mount Royal Soccer asks: Where are they now?
Zakaria Messoudi
Messoudi was the first member of the academy to graduate into the ranks of the Impact senior squad, and was overlooked by coach Marco Schillibaum immediately. He would never see the field with the Impact, and was never even selected for a place on the bench.