The top prospects from the Houston Dynamo Academy, presented by Statoil, will be on display Monday night in the annual Dynamo Academy Showcase, set to kick off at 7:30 p.m. at the Carl Lewis Track & Field Complex at the University of Houston.
First team head coach Dominic Kinnear and assistant coach Wade Barrett are expected to be on hand to evaluate players, with a full match pitting the Dynamo’s college-protected players against players from their U-18 and U-16 teams.
College participants include:
MF Josue Soto (Prepa
Tec, Mexico),
SMU, all-Conference USA
selection
DF Sebastien Ibeagha (Fort Bend
Hightower), Duke, United States U-20 national team
FW Alex Dixon (Atascocita), North Carolina, three
consecutive College Cup appearances
GK Fernando Piña (Challenge Early College),
United States U-17 national team
MF Daniel Roberts (Fort Bend
Clements), UNC-Wilmington
FW Pana Vasquez (Cy Falls), SMU
DF Matt Boullt (Fort Bend
Clements), Tulsa, academic all-Conference USA
MF Matt Kirby (Beaumont
Monsignor Kelly), Denver,
academic all-MPSF
DF C.J. Odenigwe (Fort Bend
Travis), North Carolina
MF Johnny Torres (Atascocita), Wake Forest
GK Pat Wall (Strake Jesuit),
Notre Dame
Dynamo Academy home-grown players may be signed to the Dynamo first team without being subject to the MLS SuperDraft or the allocation process. Houston has signed two players from its Academy, goalkeeper Tyler Deric (Klein) and midfielder Francisco Navas Cobo, both of whom made their professional debuts in 2010.
Tryouts for the Dynamo Academy will be held Dec. 27-30 at the Dynamo Elite Camp. More information is available at HoustonDynamo.com/EliteCamp or by calling (713) 276-7524.
The Houston Dynamo are a Major League Soccer club that has won two MLS Cup championships in its first five seasons and represented the United States in international competition four consecutive years from 2007-10. For more information, log on to www.HoustonDynamo.com or call (713) 276-7500.
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