LA Galaxy Homegrown Player Oscar Sorto has been selected for the U.S. Under-23 team's upcoming training camp in the Bahamas which will run from Aug. 3-7 in Nassau and feature a match against the Bahamas senior team on Aug. 6.
Sorto has been loaned to USL PRO side LA Galaxy II since the start of the season and has been a vital role in the plans of head coach Curt Onalfo. To date, the native of South Central Los Angeles has made 16 appearances for Galaxy II.
In addition to Sorto, there are several other Southern California connections on the squad as Pasadena's Daniel Flores (Leon), Garden Grove's Luis Gil (Real Salt Lake) Chula Vista's Ramon Del Campo (San Jose Earthquakes), and Riverside's Juan Pablo Ocegueda (Alebrijes de Oaxaca) were selected.
The complete roster is below.
GOALKEEPERS (2): Cody Cropper (Southampton; Maple Grove, Minn.), Zack Steffen (Maryland; Downington, Pa.)
DEFENDERS (7): AJ Cochran (Houston Dynamo; St. Louis, Mo.), Christian Dean (Vancouver Whitecaps FC; East Palo Alto, Calif.), Ramon Martin del Campo (San Jose Earthquakes; Chula Vista, Calif.), Bryan Gallego (Arizona United; Kinnelon, N.J.), Juan Pablo Ocegueda (Alebrijes de Oaxaca; Riverside, Calif.), William Packwood (Birmingham City; Concord, Mass.), Oscar Sorto (LA Galaxy; Los Angeles, Calif.)
MIDFIELDERS (4): Dennis Flores (León; Pasadena, Calif.), Luis Gil (Real Salt Lake; Garden Grove, Calif.), Marlon Hairston (Colorado Rapids; Jackson, Miss.), Benji Joya (Chicago Fire; San Jose, Calif.)
FORWARDS (5): Daniel Cuevas (CF Lobos BUAP; Sacramento, Calif.), Alfred Koroma Shams (Internacional; Southlake, Texas), Jordan Morris (Stanford; Mercer Island, Wash.), Victor Pineda (Indy Eleven; Bolingbrook, Ill.), Omar Salgado (Vancouver Whitecaps FC; El Paso, Texas)
