Taylor Graham Named to USL First Team. Le Toux to the 2nd.
Defender Taylor Graham has been named to USL’s All League First Team.
Midfielder Sebastien Le Toux, who netted 14 goals and added 4 assists, was voted to the USL’s Second Team. This is Le Toux’s third All-League honor. [Press Release]
The team is voted by the league’s coaches and general managers.
A Look at Some Head Coach Possibilities
Earlier, we posted a link to Ives Garcep’s top choices for who is in the running to be the first Head Coach for Sounders FC. Plus, we know that Peter Vermes won’t be the coach (and Adrian Hanauer has said that Sounders FC only inquired about talking with Vermes).
The formal interviewing process is to begin this week. Here is some background on the a few of the top choices…
- Sigi Schmid is the current coach for the Columbus Crew. He previously coached for 5 years with the LA Galaxy and was Chris Henderson’s coach at UCLA.
- Paul Mariner is the New England Revolution’s top assistant. He was a candidate for the Chicago Fire position earlier this year and told the Arizona Republic that he is interested in the position. It’s been confirmed that Sounders FC received permission from the Revoilution to talk about the coaching position with Mariner.
- Brian Schmetzer is the current head coach for the Seattle Sounders USL team and has held the position since 2002.
- John Spencer is an assistant coach for the Houston Dynamo. He was offered the head coaching position with the Chicago Fire, but the salary was “not up to par”.
- Fernando Clavijo was suggested as a candidate, but rumors have it that he is NOT on the short list.
USL to MLS
Hopefully you enjoy this animation…
Sun Sets on the USL. MLS on the Horizon.
With this weekend’s loss to le Impdact de Montreal in the Playoffs, the era of the USL’s Seattle Sounders has come to an end.
The ending of a team’s season is usually a sad moment for fans, and there is no doub that many Seattle Soccer fans aren’t that excited as they head to work this week. However, on the horizon is Major League Soccer and Seattle Sounders FC. A step up for Seattle Soccer. A grander scale for our local team on the national and world stage.
We look forward to Seattle’s future in the MLS. The next 6 months or so the off-season will find Sounders FC
- selecting a Head Coach
- go through the Expansion Draft
- seeing what they will do with the #1 pick in the Super Draft
- the filling out of the 2009 Roster
- MLS league discussion
We hope you find GoSounder.com’s upcoming information about MLS and Sounder FC more exciting and informative as ever.
Seattle Soccer Fans, the best times are yet to come!
exhilerating second half ends in heartbreak
sounders lose 3-1, knocked from playoffs.
result aside for a second, what a second half. it was as exciting as it gets. i will try to recap from memory, but there was so much that went on, i am sure to miss something.
- montreal put together a great passing play and score to make it 2-2 on agg
- montreal shut off and let in le toux to pass to levesque for a rather easy goal about 4 minutes later. 3-2 seattle on agg
- levesque makes a pretty bad tackle montreal player and is given a straight red, very harsh call, even the montreal biased commentators agreed.
- the resulting free kicked is bounced around in the box, but finds the back of the net. 3-3 on agg and montreal have a man advantage.
- about 2 minutes later le toux is brought down in the box. PENALTY. it results in a second yellow for a montreal player. 10 v 10 again.
- cueller calmly finds the back of the net, 4-3… but wait!!! nyassi was called for entering the box early. need to retake penalty
- cueller goes the same way, easily beats the keeper, but CLANG!!!!! off the post. still 3-3
- right on the edge of regular time, eyelander saves a long range effort, but only as far as an impact player who has an easy tap in. 4-3 to montreal.
- we had another player sent off (can’t remember who right now) for being the last man and cynically tripping up a clear goal scoring opportunity as the last man, even though it was on the half way line. it didn’t really matter though b/c 2 minutes later, the final whistle
*sigh*
what a heartbreaker. the sounders fans and team will feel like they deserved to win. and to be honest, they should have.
well we have just witnessed the very last USL sounders game to take place. and although the result was not what we wanted… the game was a great one.
thank you sounders!!!!!!!
first half recap… YAWN, what did i miss?
just watched the first half of the montreal/sounders game and i can say that it was a snooze fest. other than a little bit of handbags at the end, there really wasn’t much action to talk about. this should pretty much tell you everything that there is about the first half action…shots on goal – montreal 4, seattle 0.
this is all fine and good for seattle since we hold the one goal lead. i am sure schmetzer wasn’t wanting to try and go out and win this game as the first plan. of course a few goals is nice, but not allowing a goal was job one for todays game, and so far, job done.
so i suppose i will take 0-0 for the second half as well, but man, how to keep my eyes open????
it doesn’t help that one of the announcers sounds like rick steves. i keep expecting him to say, “and the ball comes accross the half way line, and i recommend a nice hike up along swiss country side while talking to the locals about cheese”.
second half, i expect more of the same from seattle, and if no goals come, especially for montreal, i think we will see many yellow cards like we did on friday.
oh, one more thing, the pitch looks likc crap
good, not great result
as i said yesterday, we need to do our best to go to montreal with a lead… well, we got that taken care off so i can’t be too harsh, but i just felt like we could have done JUST a bit more.
i would also like to take credit for the first goal as i had to pee sooooo bad, that i did what you aren’t supposed to do, and went to the can. it was as if the crowd had a camera on me in their b/c the second i started to pee, the crowd cheered fantasticly for me. err or for alcarez-cuellar’s goal, not sure which. but i do know that i was the reason for the goal, it always works that way. Read more
go for the bobble head, stay for the game
head out tonight to starfire for the sounders playoff game against montreal… but if you do, be sure to be in the first 1,000.
The first 1,000 fans receive a bobblehead of a mystery Sounders player as they enter the stadium.
oooooooooh a mystery sounders player. does that mean that we won’t know who it is until we see it? or when we see it, it is going to be such a crap job that it is a mystery who they were trying to imitate. i am thinking the latter. Read more
Thursday Morning Link Round-up
- Current Sounders Have Eyes on MLS Moves [Seattle Times] talks about how some USL Sounders are trying to get a contract with Sounders FC or an invite to Camp
- Speed and the International Game [Seattle MLS] takes an interesting look on how speed is lacking in MLS and how possessing a speed demon can help Sounders FC
how to watch the sounders playoff game on sunday
not able to watch the game on sunday in montreal? most of us can’t…
well here is your chance. from the ecs…
ECS will be gathering at 2 pm on Sunday September 28th at The Atlantic Crossing pub. Kickoff is at 2:00 pm. Atlantic Crossing Pub is offering happy hour pricing to anyone watching the game. Signup sheets for ECS membership packages (scarf+shirt+members card) will be available. So come and cheer on the USL Sounders, no other pub in town will have this game as it is on USL Live only. The Atlantic Crossing will have it on bigscreen thanks to ECS. Join us!
The Atlantic Crossing Pub
6508 Roosevelt Way NE [Map]
Seattle, WA 98115
(206) 729-6266
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Next- San Jose [Tickets]
Saturday 7/31 | 7p
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Next Home Match Houston Dynamo | Aug 8th [Tickets]
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