This is an image that both Seattle lover and haters might want to right click and save; you really
could use this for both good and evil.
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While you're enjoying your crazy-mild November weekend in KC, take some time to sign the petition
to bring the FIFA World Cup to town, and invite all your friends. We're now past the 5400-signature
mark, in 9th place among the 27 cities bidding to host World Cup matches. Help us pass Dallas, then
move toward Tampa Bay and Cleveland.
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Columbus loses 4-2 on aggregate to Real Salt Lake. It was a great season, boys. Maybe not
Massive, but not anything to be ashamed of.
None of us expected this, no one thought it was possible. The Crew always performs under
pressure. Columbus always gets the clutch goal or Jesus-save that it needs to stay alive.
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Match Fit USA 05 November @ 03:44 PM EST
Chad Marshall has won his second consecutive MLS Defender of the Year award, holding off fellow
finalists Seattle's Jhon Kennedy Hurtado and Houston's Geoff Cameron. Marshall was a steady force
in...
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Nutmegged 05 November @ 01:55 PM EST
1. Not technically in Seattle, but you don't have to cast a wide net to get this one:
2. Check out these crowds below. Here's a team made mostly famous from Jim Bouton's stories of
drugs and debauchery in
Ball Four:
3. This courtesy of James Cooke:
4.
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WVHooligan 05 November @ 12:12 PM EST
Make that two straight Defender of the Year awards for Columbus' Chad Marshall. The league
announced today Marshall won the award for best defender.
Marshall helped lead the Columbus defense that only allowed 31 goals during the regular season,
a record low for the Crew. What's more impressive is that he only played in 18 games for the Crew
this season as he missed a few games with the US National team and a few others to injury.
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Este gol del salvadoreño Arturo Álvarez, jugador del San Jose Earthquakes, puede valerle un
premio. Se lo hizo el 3 de julio al Real Saltk Lake y está nominado como uno de los mejores del
año. En total son 32 goles, uno por cada semana. El de Arturo corresponde a la semana 11.Otros
nominados son Claudio "Piojo" López (Kansas City), Freddy Montero (Seattle), Landon Donovan (LA
Galaxy) y Jeff
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Chivas USA goalkeeper Zach Thornton was named 2009 MLS Goalkeeper of the Year on Wednesday,
marking the second time he's won the award.
Thornton enjoyed a career renaissance with Chivas USA this season, posting career highs in
shutouts and goals against average while helping guide Chivas USA to the playoffs.
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Chivas USA goalkeeper Zach Thornton was named 2009 MLS Goalkeeper of the Year on Wednesday,
marking the second time he's won the award.
Thornton enjoyed a career renaissance with Chivas USA this season, posting career highs in
shutouts and goals against average while helping guide Chivas USA to the playoffs.
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Match Fit USA 04 November @ 12:19 PM EST
Major League Soccer announced today that Zach Thornton of Chivas USA has won the 2009 Goalkeeper of
the Year Award. Thornton beat out Seattle's Kasey Keller and LA Galaxy's Donovan...
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NE Revs, Taylor Twellman vs Chicago Fire
On Thursday, MLS Playoffs continue with defending champs, Columbus Crew, looking to rebound from a
1-0 loss to Real Salt Lake. The second legs of the other three conference semifinals are on
Saturday (Chicago-New England) and Sunday (Los Angeles-Chivas USA, Houston-Seattle).
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NE Revs, Taylor Twellman vs Chicago Fire
On Thursday, MLS Playoffs continue with defending champs, Columbus Crew, looking to rebound from a
1-0 loss to Real Salt Lake. The second legs of the other three conference semifinals are on
Saturday (Chicago-New England) and Sunday (Los Angeles-Chivas USA, Houston-Seattle).
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WVHooligan 03 November @ 05:52 PM EST
As mentioned earlier on my Twitter feed today has been a slow day due to some bad headaches on
my end. I won't go into it much but I am feeling a little better after some medicine kicked in here
(thanks to the few who asked). I didn't have much planned for tonight but I did want to get into
the coaching carousel that is going on in Major League Soccer.
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Rejoice fanatics, rejoice! I thought ESPN might forget about us once the postseason came about but
I guessed wrong. Which is a good thing because that means that we get more of the most attractive
MLS highlights package around. I still think this would be amazing on ESPN2HD, you know on actual
TV, but I guess we'll all just have to be patient little soccer-monks for a while longer before we
get that kind of clout.
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And the first leg of the MLS Cup Playoffs tells us...
Not much.
Two one-goal winners. Two one-goal losers. And two games ending in draws. At this point it's
still looking wide open.
This weekend's results:
Seattle 0-0 Houston
RSL 1-0 Columbus
NE 2-1 Chicago
Chivas 2-2 Galaxy
Who Will Win the 2009 MLS Cup?
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Home teams went unbeaten on the first weekend of the MLS Playoffs, setting up a quartet of
nail-biters for the second legs of all four series.
The New England Revolution and Real Salt Lake held serve at home, posting key victories, while
the Houston Dynamo and Los Angeles Galaxy were able to take draws in their visits to Seattle and,
well, Los Angeles.
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Wow, close one! The fans in Seattle are phenomenal! Some of those shots of the crowd look more
like a European club playing in Champions League!
JM
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In-stadium rivals Chivas USA and the L.A. Galaxy played to an exciting 2-2 draw Sunday night,
setting the stage for what will be the most important MLS "Super Clasico" to date next Sunday.
Chivas USA got off to a hot start in the match and they took the lead in just the 4th minute
when Maicon Santos drilled a right footed shot past L.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's that time of the year again. The regular season is over, so now we can
look at the official numbers for fouls committed and fouls suffered and put them in the context of
"per 90 minutes" rather than just raw totals. Which players will lead in the eight categories
below?
1.
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The Wizards have handed out their year end awards, and it's now time for me to hand out my end of
the year awards to Wizards players. I'm going to hand out the same awards I did last year, I'm also
adding a Performance of the Year award to the best single game performance by a player this
season.
Rookie of the Year
Matt Besler
Not really a surprise, it was either going to be Besler or Graham Zusi getting this years award,
and I don't think that Zusi got enough time this year to be considered for the award.
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The Forecast reflects on Thursday night's 0-0 draw between Houston and Seattle before casting its
eye over the remaining first leg ties on tap this weekend.
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When you say to the uninitiated that you just watched a really exciting nil-nil game they tend to
look at you in manner that suggests you are not all there; for them it's like going to Vegas and
not gambling. But if you know what's what, a scoreless draw is akin to two blind-folded guys
fighting; they may never land a punch but the near misses are what make it entertaining.
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Well, we didn't win. Houston took our best shot and is still standing. A couple thoughts on last
night's game.
1) Houston is *way* more talented than we are, up and down the field. Brad Evans played out of his
mind last night, Ljungberg had a good game, our defense was ok, Keller earned his paycheck, that
was for sure.
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Blood, noise, yellow cards and a disputed whistle outnumbered scoring chances as expansion Seattle
made its MLS postseason debut with a scoreless tie against the more experienced and bullish Houston
Dynamo on Thursday night.
Seattle couldn't take advantage of dominating possession, or the energy created by 35,807 fans at
Qwest Field.
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The MLS Playoffs opened up on Thursday night with a draw between Houston and Seattle. Given
that Houston win in almost from the beginning of the season and Seattle had to pull it together at
the last minute to get in I'd say this leaves a great deal of promise for the playoffs.
On Saturday Columbus and Salt Lake square in their first Semi-Final match and if they go
anything like Houston and Columbus this should be a doozy.
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What's the over and under on the dog getting it right tonight? Tell you what, if Seattle takes the
series I say he get's a seat at the desk on Fox Soccer Report. At the very least he should get
sideline reporting segment during the next round of the playoffs; people love "cute"...just ask
Heather Mitts.
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This week's snowstorm has altered the plans of some of the area's college soccer teams. We will
post any scheduling changes in this post as soon as we hear about them.
REGIS UNIVERSITY: The Regis University men's soccer match against Colorado
Christian scheduled for 3:30 p.
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By Graig Carbino - ALBANY, NY (Oct 29, 2009) USSoccerPlayers -- It's that time of year again. The
leaves are falling along with the temperature, the holiday season is right around the corner, and
the Major League Soccer playoffs are about to begin. Big match-night one takes place in Seattle
this evening, and what better stage for the first game of the 2009 playoffs?
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There aren't many players in MLS more versatile than Geoff Cameron, and this year, there were no
defenders who were better.
When Houston's defense reached a critical moment of transition, Dynamo head coach Dom Kinnear
turned to Cameron to help anchor the back-line early in the season and all Cameron did was respond
with dominant form few could have expected from the 2008 Rookie of the Year candidate.
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There aren't many players in MLS more versatile than Geoff Cameron, and this year, there were no
defenders who were better.
When Houston's defense reached a critical moment of transition, Dynamo head coach Dom Kinnear
turned to Cameron to help anchor the back-line early in the season and all Cameron did was respond
with dominant form few could have expected from the 2008 Rookie of the Year candidate.
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Thursday night the Sounders launch the league's second season as the Playoffs in many sports are
called, but in this case it might be particularly important. Though Houston and Seattle faced off
twice in League play and once in the late rounds of the US Open Cup, the teams have changed quite a
bit [.
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It was great to see the U.S. qualify for the World Cup and I think that's great for American
soccer, but as a Swede, of course I'm upset that we couldn't qualify. Our biggest rival is Denmark
and we knocked them out last qualification round and unfortunately they knocked us out this
time.
And they are much more relaxed here in Seattle.
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The Wizards season is over, but the Player of the Month for October needs to be handed out. My year
end awards will also be coming out soon as well. In October the Wizards went 0-2-2, scoring 5 goals
and allowing 8 goals during that time frame. Here are a few candidates for October.
Claudio Lopez - Lopez had a goal and an assist in October, setting up Zoltann Hercegfalvi's goal in
Houston and scored the game tying PK against DC.
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Photo by ISIphotos.comEight teams, one trophy. Who will lift the MLS Cup in Seattle next month?
Will it be reigning champions Columbus? How about the Los Angeles Galaxy? Think Seattle can pull
off the dream scenario of winning a title in its home stadium?
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