A Winny Loss: UANL Tigres 1, Sounders FC 0

A Winny Loss: UANL Tigres 1, Sounders FC 0

Show me 100 postgame coach reaction shots, and I’ll pick the losing coach 99 percent of the time. A losing coach looks like a kid who just threw a baseball through a window — head down, moving quickly away from the scene of the crime. Though the Sounders had just lost to CONCACAF Champions League foes UANL Tigres 1-0 — on a questionable goal, no less — Sigi Schmid kept his head up, shook his assistants’ hands, and moseyed off the field at a medium pace. Continue reading A Winny Loss: UANL Tigres 1, Sounders FC 0

Sounders Begin/Have Begun Champions League Play Tonight

Sounders Begin/Have Begun Champions League Play Tonight

One of the fun things about soccer is all the competitions outside of the regular league season. For us Mariners fans, it’s World Series or bust (aka, bust). But even if the MLS season goes south, we Sounders fans can still look for potential glory elsewhere. One of these opportunities begins tonight.

Our rave green fellers are in Panama, where they will play San Francisco FC in a 2011-12 CONCACAF Champions League preliminary stage game. Continue reading Sounders Begin/Have Begun Champions League Play Tonight