After 1st Title, Sounders Prepare For Encore Performance
SEATTLE (AP) – It took eight seasons for the Seattle Sounders to finally reach this point. They had done everything right as the most successful expansion franchise to join Major League Soccer, except...
View ArticleMLS Power Rankings: Sounders Fall, Eastern Conference Rises
With three scoreless ties, six one-goal winners, and only one of the 22 teams scoring more than two goals, defense was on prime display in the first week of the MLS regular season. Week one featured...
View ArticleMontero Leads Whitecaps Past Former Sounders Teammates
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – Fredy Montero scored twice against his former team to help the Vancouver Whitecaps beat the Seattle Sounders 2-1 on Friday night. The Colombian striker opened the...
View ArticleSounders Complete 3-Goal Comeback To Draw With New England
SEATTLE (CBS) — Watching the 43,000 Sounders fans in attendance celebrate while leaving CenturyLink Field on a rainy Saturday night, one would’ve guessed Seattle had picked up a big win. That wasn’t...
View ArticleSounders Draw With Timbers 2-2
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Clint Dempsey likened his goal against the Timbers to a slam dunk. Dempsey scored in stoppage time and the Seattle Sounders pulled into a hard-fought 2-2 draw with rival Portland...
View ArticleDempsey’s Last-Second PK Lifts Sounders Past Minnesota
SEATTLE (AP) — Last moments of the game. Ball on the penalty spot. One shot to win it. Clint Dempsey has been there before and done that. And he came through again. Dempsey converted a penalty kick in...
View ArticleMLS This Week: Valeri Guiding Portland Up the Table
Diego Valeri is on a tear, with goals in six straight games for the Portland Timbers. That’s the longest scoring streak in Major League Soccer this season, and one short of the league record. And it’s...
View ArticleNeagle’s Late Goal Gives Sounders 1-1 Tie With Galaxy
SEATTLE (AP) — Lamar Neagle keeps finding his way back to Seattle. Once he gets here, he starts finding the goal. Neagle scored in the 85th minute, just two minutes after subbing into the game, to give...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake Ends Sounders’ Unbeaten Streak
SANDY, Utah (AP) — Jefferson Savarino and Luke Mulholland scored in the second half and Real Salt Lake brought the Seattle Sounders’ 13-game unbeaten streak to an end with a 2-0 win on Saturday night....
View ArticleSounders Rout West-Leading Whitecaps
SEATTLE (AP) — Nicolas Lodeiro hadn’t found his way onto the scoresheet in more than a month. On Wednesday night, he was all over it. Loderio had a goal and two assists and La Liga veteran Victor...
View ArticleRoman Torres Among MLS Players Booking World Cup Spots
It was two very different nights for a pair of Seattle Sounders teammates. While Clint Dempsey and the U.S. national team were stunned by the 2-1 loss to Trinidad and Tobago that knocked them out of a...
View ArticleDC United Bid Farewell To RFK, And Forgettable Season
D.C. United will cap a forgettable season with one final objective in mind, to say goodbye to RFK Stadium with a win. The team, which has already been eliminated from the playoffs with 19 losses this...
View ArticleMLS Has Full Slate Of Games On Decision Day
Decision Day did not disappoint. The chaotic final day of Major League Soccer’s regular season — with all 11 matches played at the same time — featured goodbyes to both a historic stadium and a beloved...
View ArticleNicolas Lodeiro Scores Twice, Sounders beat Rapids
SEATTLE (AP) — Will Bruin is just glad to be back in the MLS playoffs. This time, he’s going with a team that has never missed them. Nicolas Loderio scored two goals, Bruin had his third in the past...
View ArticleDefending Champs Start Playoffs Again Without Clint Dempsey
TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) — For the second straight season, the Seattle Sounders will begin the MLS Cup playoffs with Clint Dempsey as a spectator. Unlike last year’s championship run by the Sounders, this...
View ArticleDempsey Scores Twice, Leads Sounders Past Whitecaps 2-0
SEATTLE (AP) — The past seven times the Seattle Sounders were in a playoff game, Clint Dempsey was stuck being a spectator. Finally back on the field in an elimination game, Dempsey made up for the...
View ArticleSeattle Signs Colombian Defender Andres Correa
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Sounders have added depth to their defense by signing Colombian defender Andres Correa. Seattle announced the signing Tuesday. Correa, 21, spent the past four seasons...
View Article5 Things To Watch As MLS Season Begins
With the change of the calendar from February to March, the beginning of the Major League Baseball season is coming, but also for another of our professional sports leagues: Major League Soccer. The...
View ArticleMLS Minimum: Playing For $36,500 With Millionaire Teammates
TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) — Before he was in Major League Soccer, Zach Scott worked in accounting, as a coach and as a substitute teacher to pay the bills while he played in pro soccer’s lower division....
View ArticleDempsey Gets Two Goals In Sounders 3-0 Win
SEATTLE (AP) — Clint Dempsey and Obafemi Martins have picked up right where they left off last season. Dempsey scored twice and Martins added a goal to help the Seattle Sounders beat the New England...
View ArticleSigi Schmid On Coaching Honor, Facing LA Galaxy, And The State Of U.S. Soccer
SEATTLE, Wash. (1090 The Fan) – Before taking over as head coach of the Seattle Sounders FC, Sigi Schmid had another job – as an accountant. After a fantastic head coaching career with the UCLA Bruins,...
View ArticleBlatter Says FIFA Corruption Probe Won’t Lead To Him
ZURICH (AP) — Having come through another FIFA election largely unscathed, Sepp Blatter was in a typically defiant mood Saturday when addressing the challenges that still lie ahead. The 79-year-old...
View ArticleThomas Jaguaribe Bedinelli Signs With Sounders
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Sounders have signed Brazilian midfielder Thomas Jaguaribe Bedinelli, who will be eligible to play immediately. Seattle announced the signing of the 22-year-old on Monday;...
View ArticlePlayer Style Files: Keeping Up With Chicago Fire Goalkeeper Sean Johnson
David Heim Chicago Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson, unlike most youths hopeful of playing professional soccer one day, got a late start to the game. “I first started playing soccer when I was 10 years...
View ArticleDeAndre Yedlin Leads Tottenham Against MLS All-Stars
DENVER (AP) — Defender DeAndre Yedlin may want to repeat this over and over: Don’t pass the ball to Clint Dempsey. Don’t pass the ball to Clint Dempsey. Nothing personal against Dempsey, of course....
View ArticleKah Scores 2 Goals To Lead Vancouver Past Seattle, 3-0
SEATTLE (AP) — The Vancouver Whitecaps began two months of seeing their Cascadia rivals to the south with potentially their most impressive victory of the season. Meanwhile, the Seattle Sounders...
View ArticleMartins Scores Twice, Sounders Rout Orlando City 4-0
SEATTLE (AP) — Obafemi Martins scored two goals in his first game since June 16 and the Seattle Sounders beat the Orlando City FC Lions 4-0 on Sunday to snap their club-record losing streak at five...
View ArticleSounders Lose 2-0 To Salt Lake
SANDY, Utah (AP) — Javier Morales and Sebastian Jaime scored early goals and Real Salt Lake held on to beat the Seattle Sounders 2-0 on Saturday night. Morales opened the scoring in the 12th minute,...
View ArticleSeattle-LA, Canadian Clash Highlight Start Of MLS Playoffs
TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) — Before the season began, Seattle and Los Angeles were two of the most popular picks in the Western Conference to play for the MLS Cup title. By the end of Wednesday night, one of...
View ArticleSeven Shameful Soccer Flops
By: Michael C. Jones Your Seattle Sounders FC host FC Dallas in game 2 of the MLS Conference Semifinals on Sunday (Seattle won the first game Sunday 2-1). Fortunately for MLS fans, the league is...
View ArticleWarriors’ Hot Start: Best Opening Streaks
By Michael C. Jones The defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors defeated the Detroit Pistons Monday night 109-95 to improve to 8-0 on the season. That’s an impressive start, made more so by the...
View ArticleOrlando, Seattle Among 10 US Cities Hosting Copa Centenario
MIAMI (AP) — The Citrus Bowl in Orlando, CenturyLink Field in Seattle and Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco are among the 10 venues for the 2016 Copa America Centenario. The other venues and cities for...
View ArticleMorris’ 2 Goals Lead Sounders Past West Ham United 3-0
SEATTLE (AP) — Rookie forward Jordan Morris came off the bench to score two second-half goals and the Seattle Sounders beat West Ham United of the English Premier League in an international exhibition...
View ArticleValdez Scores, Sends Seattle Past Sporting KC 1-0 in MLS Playoffs
SEATTLE – Nelson Valdez found a perfect moment to snap his scoring drought. Valdez scored his first MLS goal in nearly a calendar year on a header in the 88th minute to give the Seattle Sounders a 1-0...
View ArticleA Look At The MLS Conference Semifinals
The theme of this year’s Major League Soccer playoffs might just be Oh Canada! Or maybe even New York, New York. Two of the eight teams playing in the conference semifinals tomorrow are from up north:...
View ArticleSounders Get to Western Finals With Aggregate Victory
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Seattle Sounders advanced to the Western Conference finals on Sunday night, winning the two-leg series 4-2 after falling 2-1 in the second game. Seattle will host the Colorado...
View ArticleSeattle Forward Jordan Morris Voted MLS Rookie of the Year
NEW YORK— Seattle forward Jordan Morris has been voted Major League Soccer’s Rookie of the Year after scoring 12 goals in his first professional season. The 21-year-old made his national team debut two...
View ArticleLodeiro Gives Seattle 2-1 Win Over Colorado In West Finals
SEATTLE (AP) – SEATTLE (AP) – The Seattle Sounders will go to Colorado needing only a draw or a win to reach the MLS Cup final for the first time. The Rapids are perfectly fine heading home for the...
View ArticleSeattle Wins First MLS Cup
TORONTO (AP) — Roman Torres scored in the sixth round of penalty kicks to give the Seattle Sounders their first MLS Cup title, 5-4 over Toronto FC after 120 scoreless minutes Saturday night. It was...
View ArticleCoronavirus Update: MLS Extends Suspension Of Season Until May
(CBSNewYork) — On Thursday, Major League announced that it would extend that suspension until at least May 10 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. MLS had already announced last week that it would...
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