This is a feature in Issue 21 of Sounders Monthly, Sounders FC’s original magazine. They are available for free at The NINETY, Soccer Celebration, GuestLink Services locations and Membership Central as well as the Northwest, Northeast, Southwest and South gates.
Kelvin Leerdam keeps countless notes. They sit on countless pages of countless notebooks. He’s been recording everything he’s learned from soccer since he was 17. Now 28 and in his 12th professional season, the Seattle Sounders defender continues to write things down.
One of the Netherlands’ U-19 coaches told Leerdam to record everything he learned.