Great to see Rookies doing so well! Interesting to hear their perspective on how their season went.

JM

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I haven't done interviews for a while. My full time job had been at its peak, but now with a slight tailing off and the Sounders in the Playoffs I hope to get you a few interviews. First up is Steve Zakuani. Rookie of the Year candidate, fan favorite and a threat along that [...] Click to continue reading...

That line is from Sigi Schmid, but I think it relates to so many of us after this first season. I know it personally feels that way. Last night, with all of the pomp, with the win, it was one of my favorite days of my young life that didn't involve family (yes, [...] Click to continue reading...

The Seattle Sounders shut down any hopes for the F.C. Dallas winning the Major League Soccer Cup this year by eliminating them from the playoffs. Saturday night's game at the Qwest Fields in Seattle was a saddening loss for Dallas when they let in two goals, ending the game 2-1.

Sigi Schmid waves to the fans, in a 3-0 Seattle Sounders victory over the New Your Red Bulls, Thursday, March 19, 2009.

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Thank you Jim Mora. He was right. No team wants to talk about the Playoffs. They just want to win more games. Now, for the Sounders that includes a Playoff game, preferably at least three. This match was another where the Sounders played well enough to double their goal scoring total, and also played maybe the [. Click to continue reading...

I'm still as certain as ever that while Sigi has been employing the Arrow formation with a defensive midfielder and a box-to-box man the offensive woes of the team are such that finding a way to get five offensive players on the pitch rather than the 4.5 to 6.5 ratio that exists now is vital. [...] Click to continue reading...

Darrius Barnes is currently leading the way for the rookies. (Getty Images)

Its finally Friday, though I will admit this week has flown by for me due to it being a four-day work week and things being fairly steady on both the regular job front and this place. I had planned to do more than what had been posted today but I blame the weird rainy weather here in Dallas for me not getting around to some of it.

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Many will like to look at this match and say the Sounders played better than Chivas and so deserved to win. I'm a results focused guy though, they tend to actually wind up in the standings and the trophies. Teams either earn results or they don't. In this case Zach Thorton earned the results. He [. Click to continue reading...

Loads of goals this week in MLS. Some were good and others were so-so. Throw in a few PKs and it was a busy weekend in MLS.

There are plenty of goals this week, especially since we had a 6-3 game and a 3-2 game.

Order of video: Frankie Hejduk, Maicon Santos, Dave van den Burgh, Jeff Cunningham, A.

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DC United proudly display the word "tradition" on their back collars. There isn't another MLS club that could do so. They have earned it. There was an idea that they carry 12 trophies means that they deserve the 13th and that expansion franchises will never deserve respect propagated on the net, somewhat [. Click to continue reading...

This is simply incredible. You have heard of the much used phrase "harder to miss than score" well this 'effort' from Seattle Sounder Steve Zakuani is exactly that. Incredible! Thanks to 101 Great Goals for flagging this up.

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I am guilty of knowing precisely nothing about MLS, but I gather this - Zakuani was selected by Seattle Sounders FC as the number one pick in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft on a Generation Adidas contract. - from Steve Zakuani's wiki means that he is supposed to be a fairly decent player. He was also [...] Click to continue reading...

Good teams win at home and draw on the road. Currently Seattle is literally drawing 100% of matches on the road, earning 1 point per match. They are earning 1.83 points per match at home. THIS DOESN"T MEAN THEY ARE A GOOD TEAM. Good teams finish. Good teams win when they outplay their opponent. The [. Click to continue reading...

Columbus Crew are the best team in the MLS at the moment, having won their last five matches in the MLS, being unbeaten in their last eight and conceding just four goals in their last eight matches. For Andy Iro it has been a successful time, despite only playing in six league matches. His stock [... Click to continue reading...

It definitely was an interesting week in Major League Soccer. Out of all the results this weekend, all but one were a 2-0 scoreline. Because of that we went ahead and put all the goals into one package for the goals of the week. The best in my opinion is still Eddie Gavin's goal.

Order: Chris Rolfe, Mike Banner, Steve Zakuani, Fredy Montero, Maykel Galindo, Eduardo Lillingston, Chad Marshall, Eddie Gavin, Dwayne de Rosario, and O'Brien White

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Earlier we opened up the pregame analysis with a look at the defensive five in Bruce Arena's current 4-1-3-2 system. Those five have been quite effective defensively, limiting their opposition to the second fewest shots and second best goals against average in the league. But this match is a marquee crusher because of the Galaxy [. Click to continue reading...

The color is Rave Green, the direction is North and West. Some quick thoughts directly after the match. Sounders did what they needed to against Houston today in winning the three points, but more importantly played that brand of soccer we love, it certainly involved risk and hit the SSFC with a Goal Against at [. Click to continue reading...

Afer the Wednesday win over Portland Sounders had a light recovery day with stretching and some jogging while the US Men prepared for their Gold Cup match. After practice Steve and I talked for two minutes about the Open Cup past and future matches. Dave Clark: How do you think that crowd in Portland was [. Click to continue reading...

It took several months, and finishing up at Harvard but Mike Fucito is finally a professional soccer player. In this week alone Sounders FC has now added two left side players in the Harvard product and Costa Rican Leo Gonzalez. Fucito did travel with the team to Argentina where he scored, and has [. Click to continue reading...

Solo mi humilde opinión del tema EUA (Antes del profesionalismo)
Con lo que pasó en la Confederaciones con el equipo estadounidense el mundo vio jugar a EUA. Nosotros aquí en la CONCACAF ya estamos acostumbrados. Y a partir de esta competencia se han soltado por la web y fuera de ella muchas opiniones acerca de EUA, de cómo están, de cuál será su futuro, si son o no el Gigante y también se especula con el resultado del partido del 12 de agosto. Click to continue reading...

On a bright Sunday afternoon, while our National team rediscovered how powerful Brasil is, Seattle Sounders FC put forward their wills, their force and declared that this is a summer of soccer indeed. In front of the record setting crowd (thanks you last three people) Seattle showed that the new Dragon Army was in [. Click to continue reading...

Colorado have games in hand versus the Sounders, including more matches at home than any other team. This game has more value in the standings than any other this month. It reminds the league that home is where the Sounders feast, and forces the Rapids to pause in their attempt to pass Seattle. One [. Click to continue reading...

Fifteen of thirty matches played. 22 of 45 points won. A new standard for expansion in the league, and yet no where near the goals that the organization has put forward. What have we learned from the first half of the Sounders season? 1 Like in hockey a great keeper can carry a club. [...] Click to continue reading...

It seems odd to say, but on Match Day Fifteen I see a must win on the road. It isn't necessarily to stop the bleeding, 4 points in 2 at home is a great average. If Sounders do that over the season at home they would be 75% to the playoffs. This is a [...] Click to continue reading...

If that match had happened in the first month, we would have been thrilled. If that match had happened in month two we would have been satisfied. But when it happens in the fourth match we get disappointed. And rightly so. Because last night Sounders FC played like an expansion team. There were moments [. Click to continue reading...

The story of this game could be one of matchups, of lineup construction, or of the coaching philosophies, but for me the story is the three players vying for the MLS Rookie of the Year. While Stefan Frei deserves much praise, offense almost always sells, and in this case there is quite a bit [...] Click to continue reading...

It seems like all the buzz these days in comments at the Seattle Times, or at GoalSeattle, or even in the seat right next to me is how much Fredy Montero sucks. Words like lazy are thrown out. Poor passer. Bad Touch. Lucky first week. While certainly all of these may apply [...] Click to continue reading...

Last night we saw the Freddyain (Two Freddies) at both their best and their worst. Some of the mistakes in play between the two and by Montero himself were the very lowlights of the match. One could come away from last night thinking that there were problems between the two that will never [...] Click to continue reading...

Ok, so Nate Jaqua will not be in Rave Green this weekend. The question is "What will Sigi do?" No one knows this answer. The move to the 4-2-3-1 could be abandoned with Montero and Le Toux paired at the top and the mids in the bowed DM/Winger formation of the early season. [...] Click to continue reading...

After all of the nonsense of Twittergate, it is time to focus on the league action in the MLS. In Toronto, Chris Cummins has had mixed results with TFC, as their 3-1 home win over the New England Revolution proved. Daniele Dichio was back in action following a stomach illness and had a good game, [.. Click to continue reading...

Though there's one motor gone We can still carry on Comin' in on a wing and a prayer That's not a Bon Jovi reference, but a WW II song. Ok, really its a mixed metaphor for both. In this case Sounders FC is doing some things very well, but in other areas they struggle. That's where [...] Click to continue reading...

Conor Casey and the Colorado Rapids were stymied repeatedly by the goalkeeping of Seattle's Kasey Keller. (photo by Jonathan Ingraham/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)

Had the Colorado Rapids known before Saturday's match that they'd score two goals against Seattle keeper Kasey Keller, they might've been ecstatic.

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So I was playing with a way to compare offensive production - actual goals scored, and assisted. I figure that something that dealt with minutes played would be important. So I borrowed from the systems where points are earned for goals and assists and then did tiny math. This number is NOT predictive, but [. Click to continue reading...

MLS teams have learned to stop Montero by marking him hard. By crowding him when he's on ball, and to never give him a shot inside the box. They know that his vision, while good, is sometimes limited when in traffic. At the same time Montero seems to be expecting the game to be [...] Click to continue reading...

Fan voting is under way for this years MLS All Star Game. Just like with other all star games sometimes the fans of one team can dominate the voting. Luckily for everyone that is not on the Seattle Sounders FC roster the fans vote only count 25% of the final tally to determine the starting 11.

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