MLS’s hottest rivalry begins Saturday when Seattle hosts Portland, and fans of both teams are already trading insults. Portland fans “think they’re punk-rock, underground, hard-coresuperstars,” said Jeff James of Seattle’s Emerald City Supporters. “They think they’re like, hipsters.” Added another Sounders fan Sean Geiger, “They are very envious of us — they have a little-sister […]
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Mondaini's suspension explained
Chivas USA forward Marcos Mondaini will serve a four-game suspension and pay a $1,500 fine for his foul that left Real Salt Lake star Javier Morales with a dislocated and fractured left ankle and torn ligaments and will sideline him for up to five months. The suspension was less than the 10 gamesColorado’s Brian Mullan […]
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D.C. United prevails in game of streaks
[MLS] After two straight league games of conceding four goals apiece, D.C. United got the defensive plays it needed to end a bad run. The attackingtrident of Charlie Davies, Josh Wolff and Andy Najar combined for two goals andfour assists as United topped Seattle, 2-1, at RFK Stadium Wednesday to end the Sounders six-game unbeaten […]
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Seattle revamps attack once again in wake of injuries
[MLS] No matter what Seattle coach Sigi Schmid thought his team would look like a month or so into the season he would have been wrong. Theclub severed ties with DP Blaise Nkufo just hours before the March 15 season opener, and that shakeup turned out to be just a prelude to the real upheaval. […]
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Injuries to Zakuani, Ferreira shake up Western race
[MLS] Sometimes lost in the debate of why the Western Conference has been superior to the Eastern Conference the past few seasons is that, as a group, theWestern teams have a better, deeper pool of attacking players. That balance has shifted with the sidelining of Seattle winger Steve Zakuani and FC Dallas playmaker DavidFerreira due […]
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A dark, dark weekend for MLS as Ferreira and Zakuani are crippled
By Paul Gardner No one wanted anything like this to happen, for sure. Steve Zakuani, one of the few, the very few classy attacking players to come out ofcollege … out for the season with a broken leg; and David Ferreira, last season’s league MVP, also out for the season, with a broken ankle. No, […]
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Donovan and Montero end droughts
[MLS GOLEADORES] Landon Donovan‘s two goals in the Los Angeles Galaxy’s 3-0 win over the Portland Timbers ended ascoring of 11-plus league matches and 1,002 minutes. * Fredy Montero ended a scoring drought that covered his past 16 games and 1,290 minutes inall competitions for the Seattle Sounders when he scored to give the Sounders […]
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What They're Saying
“The same thing happened to Zakuani last night. A very gifted player with a compound fracture. So, what goes through my mind is a player taken down from behind and not a foul being called, and he’sat the hospital right now seeing if it’s a fracture.” — FC Dallas coach Schellas Hyndman after 2010 MLS […]
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What They're Saying
“It was a tackle I’ve made hundreds of times, and the outcome has never been that. I’m incredibly sorry he was hurt and that my team had to suffer because of it. No intent to hurthim. I’m sorry, and I hope he recovers quickly.” — Colorado’s Brian Mullan after his tackle on SteveZakuani broke the […]
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Zakuani seizes dual role
[MLS FRIDAY SPOTLIGHT] Amid all the discussion and debate about who should play where in Seattle’s attacking array, one element is left out becausehe’s usually in: Steve Zakuani. He’s not guaranteed a starting spot, but he usually earns it. In his third season since leaving theUniversity of Akron, Zakuani is the speedy, daring, aggressive winger […]