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While MLS squad struggles, Sounders youth academy provides optimism

The Sounders academy won the U16/17 national championship earlier this month, giving fans and the front office alike a potential glimpse into the club's homegrown talent of the future.

Moses Lake teenager and budding soccer star Ray Serrano wasn’t about to argue with his roommate over who controlled the television remote, or got the most comfortable bed.

When you’re only 15 and sharing a pad with Sounders center back Roman Torres as a guest invitee at the team’s training camps in California and Arizona, you do more listening than talking.

“He’s a very loud guy,’’ Serrano said.