California product Luca de la Torre, a midfielder on the U-17 World Cup-bound U.S. national team, scored with a deft side-footed shot in Fulham’s U-21s’ 3-0 win over Blackburn onFriday. The 17-year-old De de la Torre started alongside 19-year-old Emerson Hyndman, who’s on the U.S. U-23 squad for Olympic qualifying in October.

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