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While well short of embarrassing, it's looking more and more like the crowd for the March 7 CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal -- easily one of the five most important matches the Sounders have played at home -- will be a bit underwhelming in size. As of Tuesday morning, the Seattle Sounders have sold about 16,500 tickets for their match against Santos Laguna, according to team officials (they also said about 32,000 season tickets have been sold).

Long-time South Bay resident and former Galaxy Coach Sigi Schmid is taking aim at the Galaxy, despite the slim chance the Seattle Sounders have of catching the MLS leaders in the race for the Supporters' Shield reports Associated Press Sports Writer Tim Booth:

SEATTLE (AP) -- After raising their third straight U.

It was first reported earlier today, but I've independently confirmed that the Seattle Sounders have apparently exhausted their once-robust season-ticket waiting list. As a Sounders official put it to me in an email, "We were able to help everyone on the list and by time we open the season we will be right where we were last year.

"What the fuck were you doing?" Arsene Wenger shouted at Robin van Persie as he trudged off the field, following his second yellow card, soon after the second half kicked off with Arsenal a goal down against Southampton. It was the end of February and van Persie's sixth ever start in the league, after usually being kept on the bench late in to the game before replacing Robert Pires or Freddie Ljungberg.

"What the fuck were you doing?" Arsene Wenger shouted at Robin van Persie as he trudged off the field, following his second yellow card, soon after the second half kicked off with Arsenal a goal down against Southampton. It was the end of February and van Persie's sixth ever start in the league, after usually being kept on the bench late in to the game before replacing Robert Pires or Freddie Ljungberg.

This article titled "Euro 2012: Tomas Rosicky likely to miss Czech Republic decider" was written by Sid Lowe in Wroclaw and Associated Press, for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 13th June 2012 10.17 UTC

The Czech Republic captain Tomas Rosicky and the goalkeeper Petr Cech are in hospital in Wroclaw undergoing scans after picking up injuries in their team's 2-1 win over Greece at Euro 2012.

Wednesday night, New England Revolution supporters met with team officials to address the issues from June 18th's Fortgate fiasco. Fan and frequent reader Andrew Donahue was on hand and was kind enough to give us his take on the proceedings. I'll have more on it later.

While the Revs were represented by Bilello and Cathal Conlon, Director of Marketing and the liaison to the supporter groups, representatives from Team Ops, the Foxborough Police Department, and MLS were also present.

It's been a week, but Fortgate remains heavy on the minds of MLS fans across the nation as well as those who support the New England Revolution. Supporters' groups all over the league have been showing their support through chants and demonstrations in their own sections, and some of the country's best soccer writers have picked up on this story.

Philly Soccer Page and Philly.com are reporting that Philadelphia Union midfielder Keon Daniel is unavailable for Saturday's game against the Portland Timbers due to visa issues.

Daniel's situation was originally reported on by Philly Soccer Page, who tweeted the information earlier today (via @PhillySoccerPg).

Paraguay's fairy tale ride in the Copa America tournament continues as they once again rode their luck and won another penalty shootout to beat Venezuela to set up a Copa America final against Uruguay.

Paraguay, which amazingly has yet to win a match in the tournament, booked its place in the final following a scoreless tie and a 5-3 victory on penalties.

Throughout the first few decades of sports broadcasting, the role of the so-called "sideline reporter" was relatively straightforward, and very limited. They were called upon to conduct brief player and coach interviews at various pauses throughout the action, and, if there were any player injuries, they were also tasked with trying to gather a report from team officials on the exact nature of the injury, its severity, and whether the individual's ability to play the remainder of the game was impacted.

Last night, the Philadelphia Union held a rescheduled version of the Meet the Players event. The gathering at PPL Park offered fans to get autographs from and take pictures with their favorite Union players.

The event has been referred to by many as a rousing success. But not all of the fans that made the trek to PPL were able to experience this event in its entirety.