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Meet the Tacoma Defiance’s unflappable Danny Leyva, who’s all of 15 years old

Typical 15-year-old pressures: Keeping your grades up and filling in those holes in the social calendar.

Danny Leyva has those and then some.

On Feb. 20, the Seattle Sounders put the 15-year-old midfielder on the spot. In the 67th minute of the team’s international friendly with Uruguay’s Club Nacional, Leyva was summoned by coach Brian Schmetzer to replace Sounders captain Nico Lodeiro.

Much like other tests Leyva has faced since joining the Sounders academy as a 13-year-old, he passed this test at CenturyLink Field with flying colors, exhibiting a calmness and skill of a professional soccer player, let alone one who is a teenager.