Sounders Top Galaxy, Sign Marshall by Ridge Mahoney (Profile/Interview | Soccer America - February 11) As he prepares Seattle for its first MLS season with a training camp in Southern California, Coach Sigi Schmid is looking for help in the back. He turned to a familiar source.more details | go to article
Seattle Makes Its First Trade by Ridge Mahoney (Profile/Interview | Soccer America - February 13) With five weeks to go before its MLS debut against New York, Seattle has traded one of the players it claimed in the expansion draft to the Red Bulls.more details | go to article
Earthquakes To Test 3-0 Sounders Tonight by Don Ruiz (Preview | Tacoma News Tribune - February 13) Seattle Sounders FC will try to conclude its California training trip with a perfect record tonight in a match with MLS Western Division rival San Jose Earthquakes in San Luis Obispo.more details | go to article
There's Plenty Riding On Our New Coaches by Jerry Brewer (Commentary | Seattle Times - February 15) Look at them, the new faces of Seattle sports. There's Jim Mora, stern, determined, seemingly biting down on his passion as he clenches...And there's Sigi Schmid, offering a strong, confident, iconic pose, the most natural baaaad man of the four.more details | go to article
Sounders FC Beefs Up Training In Argentina by Gary Washburn (Preview | Seattle Post Intelligencer - February 24) The Sounders FC's training camp caravan heads south Wednesday for Argentina, where the club will spend 10 days practicing and playing exhibition games against South American soccer clubs.more details | go to article
Seattle Embraces Sounders FC by Steve Kelley (Commentary | Seattle Times - February 25) Despite a free-falling economy, Sounders FC has become a Seattle sports success story, reaching 20,000 season tickets less than a month before their regular season opens.more details | go to article
Sounders In Argentina For Preseason Training by No Author Listed (Press Release | Major League Soccer - February 26) Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, the new Seattle Sounders FC central defender, arrived at the hotel during the team breakfast on Thursday. He smiled and circulated around the room for handshakes with his new coaches and teammates. Hurtado received a hug from his friend, Fredy Montero, who has known him for five years. The two played together at Deportivo Cali last year. Hurtado took an overnight flight from Bogota to Buenos Aires after departing Cali earlier Wednesday.more details | go to article
'world's Game Is Back In Seattle' by Gail Wood (Commentary | The Olympian (Olympia, WA) - March 21) After a 25-year wait, 32,523 soccer fans relished every moment Thursday night as the Seattle Sounders FC made their Major League Soccer debut at Qwest Field.more details | go to article
Sounders FC To Host English Power Chelsea by Gary Washburn (Preview | Seattle Post Intelligencer - February 18) The Sounders FC returns to practice at Qwest Field on Wednesday significantly more of a team than when it departed for training camp in Southern California more than two weeks ago.more details | go to article
In M.L.S., Designated Players Do Not Guarantee Great Expectations by Jack Bell (Analysis | New York Times - March 18) When the Red Bulls and the expansion Seattle Sounders play Thursday night in Major League Soccer’s season opener, there will be players on the teams’ rosters — Juan Pablo Ángel and Freddie Ljungberg — whose individual annual salaries exceed those of all their teammates combined.more details | go to article
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