Position: Goalkeeper
Birthdate: February 2, 1993
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Height: 6-foot-1
Pronunciation: Danny Faundez
Previous Team: Orange County SC
2025: Remains under contract with the club for a fourth season in Louisville.
Last Season: He made four appearances in 2024: a clean sheet victory against Loudoun United and starts in LouCity’s U.S. Open Cup games against USL League One’s Greenville Triumph and Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders.
Highlights in purple: Faundez starred in City’s playoff run in 2022, making a key stop in a penalty shootout against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds in the conference semifinal round. With LouCity down to 10 men, Faundez managed a clean sheet in a 1-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the conference final, helping the club lift an Eastern Conference trophy. Faundez, who earned his way on the roster after open tryouts, made his first USL Championship appearance on June 6.
Before Louisville City: Faundez spent two seasons with Orange County SC, serving as a reserve in 2021 on a USL Championship title-winning squad. A dual citizen of the United States and Chile, he previously had a three-year stint in the South American nation while representing first division club Everton de Viña del Mar’s youth academy system. Faundez featured for NAIA program Bellevue College in Washington before signing with Seattle Sounders 2 in 2015.
