Soccer has taken Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez all over the world.
The kid from Merced, Calif., a city nestled in the San Joaquin Valley roughly 130 miles Southeast of San Francisco, has traveled to South America and Europe with United States youth national teams. A top prospect in the Academy, he faced the likes of Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City, Everton FC, Club America, Club Tijuana, FC Basel and Celtic FC, all before he signed his first professional contract with the Tacoma Defiance.
On Wednesday, he took the first step toward the next phase of his soccer journey, inking a Homegrown contract with the Sounders FC First Team.