3-22-11

Sounders news and notes for the week, Seattle has a home game on Friday lets hope some goals are in the cards!

Seattle has only played 2 games and has 32 more to go, it's not how you start it's how you finish!

Sounders win a game a long way from home, but they also lost in a penalty shootout.

MLS Player of the Week, Juninho or Omar Bravo?

Celtic 1 – Rangers 2 (AET) (Co-Operative Insurance Cup Final, March 20, 2011)



From the six goals scored in a new outpost in the Pacific Northwest, to a beautiful debut score for one of the league’s best youngsters, to a pair of emotional goals and a triumphant return in Washington D.C., Major League Soccer couldn't have asked for a better opening weekend.


Pacos Ferreira 1 – Benfica 5 (Liga Sagres, March 21, 2011)



Have you ever wondered how one minute a player and team could be saying "I want him to stay/I want to play here my whole career" then the next minute they are off signing with another team? It's because behind the scenes things are always moving and shaking!


FC Copenhagen 3 – Brondby 1 (SAS Ligaen, March 20, 2011)



The ethics codes will stay at all cost, lets hope the Italian coach can stick to his guns when they lose and need the "Italian Bad Boys" to come in and help bail him out.


Banfield 2 – Huracan 2 (Argentina Clausura, March 21, 2011)



Being called into the national team is a great honor, being called into a team that is relatively foreign both in language and cultural could be difficult. Timothy Chandler is the NKOTB.


Hercules 0 – Osasuna 4 (La Liga, March 20, 2011)



MLS recognizes FIFA's international calendar by releasing players like they are obligated to do, but they do not put the league on a break and so we will have many players leaving for international duty this weekend while MLS will play it's 2nd game of the season.


Napoli 2 – Cagliari 1 (Serie A, March 20, 2011)



Rich and Famous was always synonymous with actors and movie stars, now in the 21st century people making money can be anywhere and anyone and some of the top people on the list of athletes are soccer players.


Fiorentina 2 – Roma 2 (Serie A, March 20, 2011)



Golden Balls is getting a taste of the American hatred for traitors, Beckham’s off-season loans to European clubs, and the accompanying drama, have attracted such wrath.


ADO Den Haag 3 – Ajax 2 (Eredivisie, March 20, 2011)



The Famous French Number 10 will be in charge of UEFA for another 4 years. While another infamous leader promises he will leave in 2015.


Shakhtar Donetsk 4 – Volyn 0 (Ukrainian Premier League, March 20, 2011)



The one thing Arsenal are known for is finding and playing young talented players, in Cardiff this Saturday two young Arsenal players may line up across the pitch from each other.


Francesco Totti Scored his 200th and 201st goals over the weekend, here is a look at all 201 goals he has scored in his 20 years with Roma.