Impact acquire fullback Dia from Sporting Kansas City for forward Porter

MONTREAL — The Montreal Impact have acquired fullback Amadou Dia from Sporting Kansas City for forward Cameron Porter.

Dia will be added to the Impact roster upon receipt of his International Transfer Certificate.

The 23-year-old has played 32 career regular season games and 2,134 minutes, including 22 starts, since being selected by Sporting Kansas City 20th overall in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft.

Dia started nine of his 10 appearances with Kansas City this season, while also starting three games with Swope Park Rangers in the USL.

The dual citizen of France and the United States has represented the U.S. at the under-14, U18 and U20 levels.

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“We took this decision in order to improve our depth at the fullback position. Amadou is a young player that has already gained a good amount of experience in the last year and a half and will provide us with some depth for the second half of the season,” Impact technical director Adam Braz said in a release.

Porter became expendable when the Impact signed Italian forward Matteo Mancosu last week. Porter scored perhaps the biggest goal in team history in the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Champions League last year but has been plagued by injuries since.

“With the number of strikers on our roster, it would have been difficult for Cameron to break through and gain significant minutes,” Braz said. “This provides him the opportunity to go somewhere and hopefully have a chance to gain some minutes.”

The Canadian Press