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Tacoma Defiance announced a number of roster decisions on Tuesday as the USL Championship off-season is well underway. The announcement is headlined by the news that Tacoma has added three new players to the roster: Sounders Academy product Sota Kitahara, Carlos Anguiano, and Christian Herrera.
Kitahara, 17, is a central midfielder who has also seen time at right back. In 2019 he played the second most minutes and started the second most games for Tacoma Defiance as a locked-in part of the team’s double-pivot. Anguiano, 21, came up through the Portland Timbers Academy before signing with Portland Timbers 2 in 2019. The Timbers product is a central midfielder who joins Tacoma with 50 USL Championship games and nearly 4,000 minutes at that level under his belt, and should help to bolster the Defiance midfield in the absence of Jesse Daley. Herrera, 23, is a goal keeper who spent part of 2020 with Tacoma Defiance on loan from