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Velazco the 12th homegrown player signed by Real Salt Lake

We're looking at RSL's homegrown signings over the five years since the academy started.

With the signing of Ricardo Velazco from Real Monarchs, Real Salt Lake now holds six homegrown players on their roster.

This restores the team to six — they were previously set at six until Fito Ovalle left the team some months ago. Ovalle recently signed a single-year contract at third-division Italian side Fidelis Andria.

He's also the third player at the club to make the jump from Real Monarchs to Real Salt Lake; he was preceded by Emery Welshman and, more recently, Chris Schuler.