Another day, another former Sounders Academy product signing with the Seattle Sounders organization out of San Diego State University. Today, Tacoma Defiance announced the signing of 20 year-old defender Elias Katsaros.
Katsaros is going on a decade of involvement with the Seattle Sounders in some capacity or another, having first joined the Sounders Discovery Program as a 12 year-old in 2014. While playing with the Academy he participated in high-level competitions and contributed to a legacy of success as part of the U17 teams that won the 2018 US Soccer Development Academy National Championship, the 2018 Generation Adidas Cup Premier Division, and the first MLS academy to with the GA Cup Champions Division in 2019, where he scored a goal in the team’s semifinal win over West Ham United.