[MLS RISING STAR PROFILE] The third overall pick of the 2011 MLS SuperDraft, 20-year-old Perry Kitchen has already made 46 MLS appearances atvarious positions for D.C. United, which leads the Eastern Conference. Kitchen, a veteran of U.S. youth national teams and a national champion in his lone collegiate season with Akron, answeredquestions about his professional career, reminisced about youth and college soccer, and filled us in on his life away from the soccer field.

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