After signing two teenagers to Homegrown Player contracts in the middle of June, the Seattle Sounders added another Homegrown at the end of the month when they signed Shandon Hopeau to the First Team from Tacoma Defiance.
Hopeau, already a seasoned USL veteran at the age of 21, is older and more experienced than the last few HGPs that the team has added and joins the side with maybe less hype or fanfare than the others. Having played only one season with the Academy, Hopeau joined what was then S2 in 2017 and has quietly been working his way towards an opportunity with the First Team since.