1. Seattle (7.0) 2. Louisville (3.2) 3. Columbus, OH (1.7) 4. Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News (1.1) 4. Raleigh-Durham (1.1) 6. Atlanta (1.0) 6. Indianapolis(1.0) 6. Portland, Ore. (1.0) 9. Austin (0.9) 9. Birmingham (0.9) 9. Memphis (0.9) 9. Philadelphia (0.9)(Source: ESPN)
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MLS Cup 2017: Toronto FC lays claim to title of MLS's best team ever
Long-suffering Toronto soccer fans can say it proudly: 2017 Toronto FC is the best team in MLS history. TFC won the MLS Supporters’ Shield with the most points (69) and largest margin (12)in league history. It won the Canadian Championship — the Voyageurs Cup — for the sixth time in the competition’s 10 years. And […]
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MLS Cup 2017 Player Ratings
TORONTO FC-SEATTLE EXPRESS: Dec. 9 in Toronto Toronto FC 2 Seattle 0. Goals: Altidore (Giovinco) 67, Vazquez90+4. Att.: 30,584. After more than a nervy hour of controlling the action without getting a goal, Toronto FC punched through with a Jozy Altidore strike to propel itpast Seattle, 2-0, in the 2017 MLS Cup Final Saturday at […]
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MLS Cup: Seattleite Schmetzer quickly earns trust of Sounders' players
No coach who has taken his team to an MLS Cup championship has been more closely associated with his city than Seattle Sounders head coach Brian Schmetzer. The family’s SporthausSchmetzer was the Seattle area’s first soccer-only shop, opened in 1975, and all three of Walter Schmetzer‘s sons played pro soccer: Walter Jr., Andy and Brian. […]
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MLS Cup Preview: Title game matches up tactics and toughness
Most head coaches can look great with great players, and the men in charge of MLS Cup finalists Seattle and Toronto FC can certainly point to their rosters as major reasons for their success. A championship game between two evenly-matched teams usually is decided by moments of brilliance and/or catastrophe, yet those critical points can […]
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What They're Saying: Brian Schmetzer
“We’ll be using an orange ball, which will help Frei see it. Dempsey can score orange ball, white ball, it doesn’t matter.” — Seattle Sounders head coach BrianSchmetzer, asked at the pre-MLS Cup press conference with Clint Dempsey and Stefan Frei sitting to his left, whether the game would be impacted by snow, which is […]
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Stefan Frei: Sounders have 'immense opportunity' to achieve something special
If Seattle Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei has his way, he won’t win the MLS Cup MVP award again. He hopes one of his teammates gets the award, which would likely mean the Sounderswon and his teammate did something special. Like scoring a goal. Which is more Seattle didn’t do in 2016. Heck, it didn’t even […]
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Oh dear, Toronto vs Seattle again. Here's hoping for a real game this time.
Coming up — the MLS final between Toronto and Seattle. Well, we’ve had that before. That’s the trouble here. We had Toronto-Seattle last year. And a pretty damn awful game it was. Toremind you: a game played in inhospitably arctic weather, a game that lasted 120 minutes, a game that featured no goals at all […]
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Clint Dempsey is happy to be making an impact for the Sounders
Clint Dempsey has played eight seasons in MLS and seven in England but never played in a league final his team won. He’ll get a chance to change that when the Seattle Sounderstravel to Toronto to face Toronto FC next Saturday in a rematch of MLS Cup 2016, which the Sounders won in a shootout. […]
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Seattle-Houston: Sounders run away with Western Conference title
SEATTLE-HOUSTON EXPRESS: Nov. 30 in Seattle Seattle 3 Houston 0. Goals: Rodriguez 22 (Bruin), Dempsey(Jones, Rodriguez) 57, Bruin (Shipp) 73.Att.: 45,298. Seattle rode out a quiet opening period and after scoring with its first shot of the game efficientlydispatched Houston, 3-0, to win the Western Conference final series by a 5-0 aggregate Thursday at CenturyLink Field. […]