Tuesday 4 October 2011

The Seattle Sounders play the Chicago Fire in the US Open Cup Final tonight with a chance for a historic Third Championship in a Row!!

If your in attendance for tonight's game you will help set a record! Monday's press conference news and notes.

What's the measure of a good team? Playoffs or Championships?

October is "Breast Cancer awareness month" some players to honor the month have donned pink accessories. One Sounder will be showing them off tonight!

In the span of the past two weeks, the Seattle Sounders FC have locked up nearly every major goal on their season-long to-do list.They clinched a Major League Soccer playoff spot for a third consecutive season. They claimed the first MLS version of the Cascadia Cup - the regional rivalry between Seattle, Portland and Vancouver - with a 3-1 win over the Whitecaps north of the border. And they advanced into the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League by pulling out a 2-2 draw in Guatemala against Comunicaciones and wrapped up one of the top two spots in their group.


Fulham 6 – QPR 0 (Premier League, October 2, 2011)



David Beckham may be 36 years old and nearing the end of a storied professional soccer career, but his often intangible appeal is still strong enough to attract interest from Europe. Will he go is another question?


Bolton 1 – Chelsea 5 (Premier League, October 2, 2011)



Edson Buddle replaces Landon Donovan on U.S. national team roster for upcoming friendlies against Honduras and Ecuador


Blooper of the Week



With fewer than a thousand days to go before Brazil 2014, the 20th World Cup, there is a standoff between two heavyweights -- Dilma Rousseff and Sepp Blatter, the presidents, respectively, of Brazil and FIFA. Can anyone say USA?


Blackburn 0 – Manchester City 4 (Premier League, October 1, 2011)



LA Galaxy's Robbie Keane is making his mark in Major League Soccer
The Galaxy forward spoke with Goal.com exclusively about the adjustments that he's had to make playing in MLS, why he chose LA over NYC or Boston and his national team future.


Fastest Goal Ever??



The Montreal Impact will be team number 19 when the MLS kicks off next March. They signed their first player yesterday and announced some players they have invited to their training camp in January.



Espanyol 0 – Real Madrid 4 (La Liga, October 2, 2011)



I first saw Carlos Tevez play on June 16, 2006. He came on as a 59th minute substitution for Javier Saviola against Serbia and Montenegro in a World Cup group stage game and scored his side’s fifth goal of a 6-0 romp—one of my favourite matches of the tournament. I didn’t follow South American football at the time and had only learned about him from the bartender at the pub that served as my unofficial World Cup headquarters.

“You need to see this Tevez,” he said excitedly. I remember the conversation well, as I tend to do when the subject is a young footballer I’ve never seen.


Novara 3 – Catania 3 (Serie A, October 2, 2011)




It's what I have always said "I was just getting people back. If someone got me early in the game it was always in the back of my mind that I needed to get them back.

"I didn't always do it on purpose, some of it was just bad timing, I suppose?"


Hannover 3 – Werder Bremen 2 (Bundesliga, October 2, 2011)




Every weekend in some game somewhere in Europe a player is sent off, what doesn't happen hardly ever is that players red card being recinded. It happened for Lucky Jack today!


Shakhtar Donetsk 4 – Zorya 1 (Ukraine Premier League, October 2, 2011)