TUKWILA, Wash. – The Seattle Sounders on Wednesday confirmed Homegrown forward Victor Mansaray is currently training with Norwegian second-tier club Åsane and will train with first-division club Brann next week.
The Sounders added that Mansaray is only in Norway to gain professional experience, and he is expected to return to the club mid-month. He is still a rostered player with the club.
Though he appeared in three games in 2015, Mansaray has yet to appear for the Sounders’ first team this season. He has appeared in 14 games this season for Sounders FC 2 in the USL, however, scoring four goals in 994 minutes for head coach Ezra Hendrickson’s team.
Mansaray, 19, signed as a Homegrown player in November 2014 after first turning heads in the Sounders FC Academy in 2012. Originally from Sierra Leone, Mansaray moved to Western Washington as a teenager and attended Fife High School.
Mansarary has also been a regular fixture in the U.S. Soccer youth ranks in recent years, appearing with the U.S. Under-18 and Under-20 teams. He was most recently called in for the Under-20 team in the 2016 U-20 Men’s NTC Invitational earlier this summer in California.
