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SEATTLE — Seattle Sounders FC more than passed its Saturday test against the top-ranked team in Major League Soccer.
SEATTLE — Sounders FC forward Eddie Johnson was among 26 players called in to the U.S. national team Thursday by coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
David Beckham, whose curling free kicks, rugged good looks and celebrity marriage made him one of the most famous athletes in the world, is retiring from soccer.
Seattle Sounders FC will open its fifth U.S. Open Cup on May 29 against a team representing Tampa Bay.
After opening the season with a five-game winless streak, Seattle Sounders FC suddenly finds itself on a five-game unbeaten streak.
Seattle Sounders FC coach Sigi Schmid calls them bogey teams. They are teams that just seem to have another teams number sometimes for reasons that dont make sense in pure soccer terms.
Djimi Traore’s first goal in Major League Soccer changed a game Wednesday, and perhaps the Seattle Sounders’ season outlook as well.
In a Sounders FC season that has been defined by its long injury list, defender Patrick Ianni was the pioneer.
Another week into the MLS season, and Seattle Sounders FC isn’t much closer to getting its first XI lineup on the pitch.
Seattle Sounders FC led and trailed, and finally came away with a 2-2 draw in a wild Major League Soccer match with the Philadelphia Union on Saturday in Chester, Pa.