Cascadia Games: The Sounders and the fury
The Sounders used to be a big dog in Major league Soccer. Now Cascadia competitors Portland and Vancouver are nipping at their heels.
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The Sounders used to be a big dog in Major league Soccer. Now Cascadia competitors Portland and Vancouver are nipping at their heels.
Rain, wind and full tilt play from the Seattle side? Put all that together and LA could wind up feeling old and uncertain.
The exhibitions, the interruptions, the distractions are over. Now the real run for a championship begins and the team is pretty well knitted together.
Struggling on the Mukilteo run, zooming along outside Copenhagen. And not missing the bus.
All parts and little union is how the team looked, losing this past weekend to San Jose. But they will be a very good team when some injured players return and coach Sigi stops tinkering with normal.