SEATTLE — Sounders right back Kelvin Leerdam had been so caught up in the intensity of his first derby match with Portland that he hadn’t much time to feel disappointed by the result.
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LOS ANGELES — Without protest, L.A. Galaxy defender Daniel Steres walked off the field in what would have been a game-changer for any other MLS team.
SANDY, Utah — Defensive blunders continue to plague Sounders FC.
SEATTLE — Felipe Gutierrez credited luck for one of his going in the net for Sporting Kansas City.
TUKWILA, Wash. – Sounders center back Roman Torres was suspended by MLS on Friday for 10 games for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy. Torres tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance, the league said.
Performance — good and bad — was a keyword for the Sounders in their final training sessions before hosting Sporting Kansas City on Sunday at CenturyLink Field.
TUKWILA, Wash. — Brad Smith will remain a Sounder through 2019.
SEATTLE — Brian Fernandez only arrived in Portland a couple of months ago. He’s quickly become a despised figure in Seattle.
SEATTLE — Borussia Dortmund of the German Bundesliga proved a bit too much for the Seattle Sounders in a 3-1 victory in an international friendly Wednesday night at CenturyLink Field.
SEATTLE — Raúl Ruidíaz and Harry Shipp scored to help the Seattle Sounders beat Atlanta United 2-1 on Sunday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Maximiliano Moralez, Jesús Medina and Ebenezer Ofori each scored a second-half goal and New York City FC knocked off the Seattle Sounders 3-0 in an MLS match here on Wednesday night.
SEATTLE — Midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro, the Sounders’ all-time assists leader, has been named to the 26-player MLS All-Star team, league officials announced on Monday.
TACOMA — The Sounders switched competitions but couldn’t shake their losing skid.
TUKWILA — MLS is on a two-week FIFA international break and the Sounders are … still playing?
MONTREAL — An unhappy group of Sounders trudged slowly around the visitors’ locker room, having finished off the first half of their season knowing they’d allowed yet another road game to get away.
TACOMA — Since 1975, the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers soccer teams have battled for Pacific Northwest superiority.
History likely will be made today for the Sounders.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Johnny Russell had a hat trick and Sporting Kansas City beat the Seattle Sounders 3-2 on Sunday to snap a seven-game winless streak.
TUKWILA, Wash. — Three-time MLS defender of the year Chad Marshall announced his retirement due to injury on Wednesday, bringing an end to a 16-year career that included stints with the Columbus Crew and Seattle Sounders.
SEATTLE — Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer understood the frustration even if a full CenturyLink Field audience couldn’t.
TUKWILA — Perhaps Jordy Delem has a knack for breaking up plays on the soccer field because his parents were talented scorers.
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Sounders bolstered their defense by signing Ecuadorean central defender Xavier Arreaga and bringing back Joevin Jones before the MLS transfer window deadline.
TUKWILA — A MLS disciplinary panel on Wednesday rescinded the red card issued to the Sounders’ Cristian Roldan in the 18th minute of a draw against Los Angeles FC on Sunday at CenturyLink Field, meaning the midfielder will be eligible to play at Minnesota on Saturday.
SEATTLE — When his Seattle Sounders salvaged a tie against San Jose last Wednesday, coach Brian Schmetzer wasn’t shy about saying it felt like a loss. He had a far different feeling about another tie Sunday.
SEATTLE — The Sounders’ hot start to the season was on the verge of becoming a distant memory until they stoked a fire in the second half of their matchup against San Jose on Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES — Seattle headed to Los Angeles wanting a statement MLS game.
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Major League Soccer postponed a game scheduled for Wednesday night between the Seattle Sounders and Colorado Rapids due to bad weather in the Denver area.
SEATTLE — An expansion team that played as poorly as expected was a welcome tonic for a trio of Sounders midfielders that still face work in adjusting to one another.
SEATTLE — Sounders forward Jordan Morris couldn’t have asked for a more triumphant return from injury than he pulled off last weekend.
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Sounders have a new jersey sponsor after signing a multiyear deal with online retailer Zulily.
SEATTLE — It had been accepted within the Sounders ranks some time ago that Osvaldo Alonso, the team’s last remaining original MLS member, had played his final match with the club.
SEATTLE — Even before stars like Fredy Montero, Kasey Keller, Clint Dempsey and Stefan Frei put the Sounders on the Major League Soccer map, the team’s defining acquisition had been a German-born head coach with a penchant for winning games.
SEATTLE — A longer offseason than the Sounders hoped for began Tuesday night with them confirming their general manager will indeed be the one making any player personnel calls this winter.
SEATTLE — The first bit of celebrating by the Portland Timbers was premature.
SEATTLE — Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei wasn’t about to end what could be his team’s final practice of the year Wednesday dwelling on near misses.
PORTLAND — Sebastian Blanco put the Timbers in front with a goal in the 29th minute and Portland hung on over a tense second half to go up 2-1 in the first leg of their Western Conference semifinal against the Seattle Sounders on Sunday.
SEATTLE — When Raul Ruidiaz joined the Seattle Sounders in late June, they weren’t even close to making the MLS playoffs — not even the knockout round.
HOUSTON — Nicolas Lodeiro had the first three-assist game of his career, giving him a Seattle career record of 35 in the regular season, leading the Sounders to a 3-2 victory over the Houston Dynamo on Sunday.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Victor Rodriguez had a goal and an assist to help the Seattle Sounders beat Orlando City 2-1 on Wednesday night and clinch their 10th consecutive playoff berth.
SEATTLE — Victor Rodriguez and Will Bruin haven’t played as many minutes as they would have liked in the past few months. Both were on the field for all 90 Monday night and made the most of their opportunity.
SEATTLE — One journey ended and another began for the Sounders last week when their single-season Major League Soccer record win streak ended at nine.
CARSON, Calif. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his 18th goal of the season and Los Angeles beat the Seattle Sounders 3-0 on Sunday for Dominic Kinnear’s first victory as the Galaxy’s interim coach.
SEATTLE — Stefan Frei stood in a mostly silent Sounders locker room, fielding questions, owning mistakes and talking about not letting the end of a historic run lead to something far worse.
SEATTLE — A franchise-record 13-game unbeaten streak of a year ago is something the Sounders can match tonight in a quick turnaround off their latest victory.
SEATTLE — Arguably the finest American goalkeeper to ever play paused Wednesday and pondered the question of why former teammate and fellow U.S. soccer legend Clint Dempsey would retire at age 35.
PORTLAND — A seventh straight win was sweet, but for the Seattle Sounders, it was even sweeter because it came against the rival Timbers — on their home field.
SEATTLE — Sounders defender Roman Torres can’t get on the field.
Nicolas Lodeiro and his Sounders had gotten a halftime earful about their tendency to take their collective foot off the proverbial gas pedal.
SEATTLE — Six weeks ago, the Sounders were focused on winning enough games just to climb their way back into the playoff hunt.
SEATTLE — Playoff soccer returned with a vengeance to CenturyLink Field about three months early and just in time for a Sounders team still living down its dismal first half of the season.
SEATTLE — The Sounders are ready to throw everything they’ve got at a conference-leading opponent that looms as the season’s biggest test of where they stand and how far they’ve come.
