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Brenden Aaronson signing ‘a proud moment’ for South Jersey

Brenden Aaronson’s dad remembers taking him to a tryout for the Philadelphia Union Academy at YSC Sports and wondering if anyone had even noticed his son amongst the hundreds of boys on the field that day.

“He wasn’t getting many touches so I was afraid no one saw what he was able to do,” said Rusty Aaronson. “But they kept having him come back so out of all those kids who were there they saw something they liked.”

Eight years after those first trips over the river from Medford, N.J., Brenden was putting pen to paper to sign his first professional contract last week, becoming the first South Jersey native to sign a homegrown deal with the club.