Marlon Vargas (born January 12, 2001) is an American
soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player who plays as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
for
Colorado Rapids 2
Colorado Rapids 2 is a professional soccer club based in Denver, Colorado area that competes in the MLS Next Pro league, the third division of American soccer. The team is owned by, and operates as the reserve team of, the Major League Socce ...
in
MLS Next Pro.
He joined the academy of
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada ...
's Seattle Sounders FC in 2016 and signed a professional contract with the team's reserve side two years later. Vargas played regularly for the reserves, later renamed Tacoma Defiance, and led the team in scoring during the 2022 Tacoma Defiance season, 2022 season. With his 12 goals and six assists, he was also named to the MLS Next Pro Best XI at the end of the season.
Honors
Individual
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MLS Next Pro Best XI: 2022 MLS Next Pro season, 2022
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Men's association football midfielders
American men's soccer players
Tacoma Defiance players
Colorado Rapids 2 players
USL Championship players
Sportspeople from Bakersfield, California
Soccer players from Washington (state)
2001 births
Living people
Soccer players from California
American sportspeople of Salvadoran descent
MLS Next Pro players
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