Eylander Named “Player of the US Open Cup”
Seattle Sounders Goalkeeper, Chris Eylander, was named the 2008 Player of the Tournament for this years US Open Cup edging DC United forward Jaime Moreno.
During the tournament, Eylander had 454 consecutive shotout minutes in goal.
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Sounders Headed to Argentina
In Matt Gaschk’s article in the PI, he notes that Chris Eylander, Josh Gardner, Kevin Sakuda, and Kenji Treschuk all are “most likely to join Le Toux, midfielder Sanna Nyassi and goalkeeper Kasey Keller with the MLS club…”
Then followed up with, “Hanauer indicated the club isn’t likely to sign more players until after the USL Sounders return from an October trip to Argentina.”
Hat tip to GOALSeattle.com who was up before the break of dawn to post this too.
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.
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
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
first playoff game at starfire, this friday
the sounders have announced that the first playoff game will be held in seattle (at starfire) at 7pm this friday.
I like that we are playing them here first with the chance to take a lead into the second leg and putting all the pressure on them.
Tickets are going to sell fast, so get yours as soon as you are able. Tickets go on sale Tuesday morning at 10 am through www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 at the gate. $13 Group tickets are available by calling 425-203-8303.
Reminder! Season Ticket holders who bought their tickets through the early bird special already have a ticket for Friday’s match with the Impact. All other season ticket holders can call 425-203-8303 starting today to order tickets.
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