Match 7: @ Chicago Fire Preview
Sounders FC heads to the Windy City for their seventh match in the 2009 MLS Season.
The Chicago Fire (2-0-4, 10 pts) is in second place of the Eastern Conference as they host the Sounders (4-2-0, 12pts) the Western Conference’s second place team at Toyota Park.
The Fire have walked away with a draw in their last three league matches; against San Jose (3-3), Kansas City (2-2), Columbus (2-2). They lost an international friendly to Mexican power Club America 2-1 on Wednesday night. For that match, Chicago Head Coach, Denis Hamlett, mixed starters with reserves, balancing his desire to respect Club America and the fans in attendance with his need to keep players fresh for their league game Saturday against Sounders FC. Read more
MLS Stadium Tour: Toyota Park
This weekend, Sounders FC heads to the suburbs of the Windy City to take on the Chicago Fire at Toyota Park.
Toyota Park is located about 16 miles southwest of downtown Chicago in Bridgeview, IL. Built as a Soccer Specific Stadium, it has a capacity of 20,000. Read more
Tickets for DC United Still Available
The match against DC United at Qwest on June 17th was erroneously noted as being sold out.
Tickets are indeed still available but few remain. You can buy them from Ticketmaster here.
what to do with letoux
sebasiten le toux is making a nuisance of himself isn’t he? he get’s the first assist of the season last month, but then has a few challenging games where he fails to impress. he sits last week for zakuani/evans to take up the wing, but then follows that up with a 2 goal and 2 assist match last night.
so where does le toux fit in?
is he good enough to follow up that performance? or did he only shine b/c it was a little bit of a weakened RSL team?
did he show that his true position is striker? or will he only ever be an average player at the top flight, but a great player at the lower divisions? Read more
Sounders FC 4: :1 Real Salt Lake [US Open Cup]
Seattle got two goals and two assists from from Sebastien LeToux as Sounders FC defeated Real Salt Lake in a Play-In Match for the US Open Cup.
Sanna Nyassi and Stephen King added goals for the Sounders in their 4-1 win.
LeToux notched his first goal (24′) on a Penalty Kick after fellow USL Sounder Roger Levesque was taken down in the area. Nyassi quickly scored 2 minutes later.
King’s goal in the 53rd finished off a pretty passing sequence that started with LeToux and Levesque. Seba scored his second and the club’s fourth goal on a cross from Levesque 2 minutes after that.
Head Coach Sigi Schmid noted, “the result was great for us tonight, and it was good to get some guys on the field who haven’t been playing a lot, and for them to make our job as difficult as possible as coaches. So, obviously, [Sebastien Le Toux] had a very good game, with his two goals, [Sanna] Nyassi, causing a lot of problems, but I also thought Ianni and King played very well in the middle of midfield, kept things together for us pretty much. It was nice to have Taylor Graham back out there. So, overall, I was really pleased with how we played.”
Sounders FC will play the Colorado Rapids next. The game, location, and date will be determined later. The winner of that game will earn one of MLS’s eight US Open Cup spots. Read more
From the US Open Cup
We’ll do our best to update with highlights of the Sounders FC – Real Salt Lake US Open Cup Play-In match.
Make sure to refresh or hit F5.
Starfire Sports- Tukwila,WA
Starting Lineup (appears to be…)
Seattle: Levesque, Scott, Graham (captain), Riley, Ianni, LeToux, Nyassi, Zakuani, Wahl, King, Eylander
RSL: 5, 1, 23, 3, 8, 77, 20, 33, 10, 20, 2 Read more
Sounders FC TV Ratings
We know that Sounders FC are doing well at the ticket office selling out the soccer-configured Qwest Field for the first 9 games of the 2009 MLS Season.
Well, the Sounders are doing well on TV as well. Amazing actually. According to Glenn Davis, the live broadcast of last Saturday’s match got a rating of 4.1. That equates to over 73,000 households and close to 183,000 viewers. Read more
Getting to Starfire
So you’re a Sounders fan. And you bought tickets to tonight’s US Open Cup Match, but then you found out it was at Starfire down in Tukwila. Well, in case this is your first time there here are some directions… Read more
Chelsea Pre-Sale Information
The Internet PreSale for Sounder FC’s international friendly against Chelsea on July 18th will go on sale next Monday May 4th at 10a.
Stay tuned here for more details.
General Ticket Sales will begin on May 11th.
San Jose, DC, Colorado Games Sold Out
Add another 3 games to the list of Sold Out matches for Sounders FC at Qwest.
The Front Office has announced that the 3 games at Qwest in June have sold out, making the total 9 on the 2009 Season… so far.
- June 13 vs. San Jose Earthquakes
- June 17th vs. DC United
- June 28th vs. Colorado Rapids
So if you’re looking for a ticket, don’t be despaired. You can buy tickets to games at Qwest from current season ticket holders who are re-selling their tickets.
