The expansion club selected 19-year-old Manu Duah, a 6-foot-4 freshman defensive midfielder from Ghana who played at UCSB
College drafts are about promise more than the present, about ceilings and upsides and potential, and San Diego FC took that to a new extreme with the No. 1 overall pick in Major League Soccer’s SuperDraft on Friday.
“His talent is really high,” SDFC coach Mikey Varas. “He’s a young player. He’s done great in his college career. The next step is seeing how he adapts. We’re not going to limit anybody’s story before we’re out on the pitch together. Ultimately what we have found is it takes a bit of time to adapt from the college game to the pro game, mainly because of how often the training is, how intense the training is.
“I know there are already two big-time 6s there, and I’m ready to learn from them,” said Duah, who was born in Ghana, came to the United States for high school and is the latest in a pipeline of Ghanaian players to UCSB. “But I don’t see this as a long-term thing. I see it as, I’m going to get playing time when I humble myself and learn from those 6s already there. I can add more to my game and then improve and also have playing time.”“I never had a dream that I would be the No.
All four GA players this year went in the top-15 picks, including three in the top four. The Chicago Fire took Wisconsin freshman forward Dean Boltz at No. 3 and the Colorado Rapids took Cornell sophomore forward Alex Harris at No. 4. Max Floriana, a senior defender from St. Louis University, went second to the San Jose Earthquakes.
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