By Paul Kennedy The motivation of the Seattle Sounders’ owners, Joe Roth, Adrian Hanauer, Drew Carey and Paul Allen, for signing Clint Dempseywas always clear. They have the money to pay him and the desire to add an established star to help take the Sounders over the top after four failed postseasons. But just what […]
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Dempsey deal ratchets up tensions in the West
By Ridge Mahoney Eight points encompassing as many teams. Seven conference foes that have to face Clint Dempsey at least once. That’s where the Western race stands heading into final one-third of the season. Real Salt Lake tops the West with 38 points, and only eight points away in eighth are theEarthquakes, who by toppling […]
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Mystery of Dempsey signing explained
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] For Seattle fans, the suspense was finally over Saturday night when Sounders owner Joe Roth presented Clint Dempsey to the crowd assembled at CenturyLink Field for the Seattle-FC Dallas game. For those trying to figure out just how the Sounders had obtained Dempsey’srights from Tottenham, that MLS mystery was cleared up earlier in […]
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What They're Saying
“I was almost going to drive out [to the airport] myself. I figured if I could spot him, then that would be a good thing. I could maybe kidnap him, throw him back in the car and convince him tomaybe play for us.” — Seattle Sounders coach Sigi Schmid on reports local fans were roaming […]
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Montero off to Sporting Lisbon
[MLS TRANSACTIONS] After Millonarios in his native Colombia, the Seattle Sounders have loaned Fredy Montero to Portugal’sSporting Lisbon with an option to buy Montero on a permanent transfer. Montero, 25, started 19 games for Millonarios after joining the club in January and he scored a team-high sevengoals. Sporting is one of the big three of […]
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Sounders' Alonso cleared of red card
[MLS DISCIPLINE] The Seattle Sounders, a team in need of good news with Michael Gspurning, Brad Evans and Djimi Traore all hurt in Saturday’s 1-0 loss to San Jose and Eddie Johnson recalled to theU.S. national team for the Gold Cup quarterfinals, got it as a one-game suspension for a red card issued to Osvaldo […]
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High-scoring action kicks off Finals Week
[DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY] Play began Sunday at the Development Academy’s Finals Week in Houston with group play in both the under-17/18 and under-15/16 age groups. Theeight games produced 30 goals for an average of 3.75 goals a game. Day 1 featured a Cascadia Cup match won by the Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-18 Residency with a 3-1 […]
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What They're Saying
“You can’t create chances when a team kicks you and doesn’t want to play soccer. I have nothing against the coaching staff and nothing against the players, but today was just anugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly game of soccer.” — Seattle head coach Sigi Schmid after his team fell at San Jose, 1-0, in […]
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Some bright spots on MLS attendance front
By Paul Kennedy Major League Soccer attendance continues to lag behind its record-high final average of 18,807 in 2012 with an average of 17,480through 150 games in 2013. Three teams have registered increases of more than five percent over their 2012 averages for the same number of games, and six teams have decreases of more […]
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Yedlin and Hernandez are great fits
[USA UNDER-20 MEN] The USA opens play at the Under-20 World Cup Friday against Spain with close to the same team thatqualified with a string of four straight wins followed by an overtime loss to Mexico in the Concacaf U-20 final. On the eve of the tournament, Coach Tab Ramostalked to the media about two […]