In March 2009, David Estrada, a junior at UCLA, sat down to watch the Seattle Sounders’ inaugural match on ESPN. He was in awe of the environment and atmosphere, but that paled in comparison to the first time he entered CenturyLink Field as a player.
“You can see it on TV, but you don’t really know how it is until you’re in the stadium,” Estrada told Steve Zakuani the latest episode of “Winging it with Zakuani.” “You try to describe it, but it’s a feeling you can’t replicate.”
After a four-year career at UCLA, Estrada was selected by the Sounders in the first round of the 2010 MLS SuperDraft.