Leo González, the Costa Rican National Team defender has secured his Work Visa and International Clearance. He was at practice today and is ready to wear Rave Green in Sunday’s match agains the ‘Quakes- although he most likely won’t see the pitch until next week’s friendly against Barcelona. He played in the recent Gold...
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Reda Doulyazal is currently on trial with Sounders FC. Reda, an attacking/wing midfielder, has been playing professionally for Wydad Casablanca in Morocco and is member of the Moroccan U23 National Team. In 2005, Reda’s U20 Moroccan National team advanced to the semi-finals of the U20 FIFA World Cup (Sigi Schmid was the coach of...
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Jeff Parke has been waived by the Vancouver Whitecaps. It appears he is going to head back over to Europe as a trialist trying to earn a contract. Parke’s MLS rights still belong to Sounders FC. Some folks believe that Parke would ideally be left unprotected in this year’s Expansion Draft and that he...
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Colombian striker Fredy Montero has been called up by his National Team to participate in their friendly against El Salvador on August 7th in Houston. He will miss Seattle’s friendly against Barcelona on the 5th and the Sounders’ MLS laegue match at Real Salt Lake on the 8th. Montero is currently 2nd in Goal scoring...
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Fredy Montero (#17), Freddie Ljungberg (#10), and Kasey Keller (#18) All Star jerseys are available in the store for $99.99. Update: even though Ljungberg wore #8 in the All Star game, these jerseys will be printed with #10- the number Sounders fan associate with him. The GoSounders.com Store is powered by SeattleTeams.com. Don’t forget, if...
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1st time All Star Freddie Ljungberg was taken to the hospital following the MLS All Star Game against Everton last night with the beginings of a migraine. The former Arsenal star had a temporary loss of vision. The MLS All Stars lost to the club from Liverpool in Penalty Kicks; US National Team goalkeeper...
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As we are in the midst of the All Star “break” I decided to take a look at something that had been noted after Freddie Ljungberg’s red card on Saturday; that the Sounders get fouled… a whole lot. Seattle is also currently tied for the lead in MLS with the New York Red Bulls...
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percy allen over at the times has been doing a few pieces on all the local play callers. neihaus for the mariners, the guy that does the hawks, the guy that does the huskies and the guy that does the cougars (no, i don’t know their names off the top of my head). today...
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FC Barcelona has announced their 26-man traveling squad for their 2009 Summer Tour. They will be playing the Sounders in Seattle on August 5th. Zlatan Ibrahimovic Lionel Andrés Messi Bojan Krkic Pérez Thierry Henry Scherrer Cabelino Maxwell Andrade
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ok, maybe there aren’t 24 things i would change, but there are a half dozen for sure (look for that post after the season when there is little to talk about). but in reading jose’s blog this morning i read something i didn’t know (yes, it happens all the time if you can believe...
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