This is a feature in Issue 15 of Sounders Monthly. Copies are available for free at The NINETY, GuestLink Services locations, Soccer Celebration and Membership Central. You can also access it on the Sounders Mobile App.
Seattle Sounders FC 2 forward Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez remembers the precise moment he found out that Sounders Academy was interested in him.
Ocampo-Chavez, then 13, was taking a nap after school. All of a sudden, his mom burst into his room, yelling at him to wake up. As any adolescent would do, he mentally went through all the things for which he could be in trouble.