Sounders!

[archenemy]

Played the gizzerds tonight. went into overtime. i had to leave after the first interval due to old age. but the game raged on. i heard yelling. it may have been me though, they closed down the beer places.

good game though. hope to see some of you there in the future

[olyclimber]

so who is the ichiro of sounders socker? or is this a team sport? what sort of ball do they use?

[archenemy]

#8

[archenemy]

but he played very timid and i was unipressed.

[olyclimber]

soccer needs insane rabid fans to really succeed. were there any there?

[Hugh Conway]

US soccer that isn't painful to watch?

[nkane]

Build a bonfire, build a bonfire,

Put Seaaaatle on the top

Put Vancouver in the middle

And we'll burn the fucking lot.

[pindude]

The Sounders rock.

 

Porter, it may take a couple more generations, but soccer in the US will rival and perhaps surpass baseball and even our regular good ol' American football in popularity in this country. Both in terms of players and fans. I've been watching it grow since I was a young kid.

 

Current Sounders Coach Brian Schmetzer and his family helped change the face of soccer right here in Seattle and the NW area. Brian's dad Walter started the Lake City soccer club in the late 60s in north Seattle and his teams instantly started winning state championships across several age divisions. Dad Walter not only coached but trained others to coach, under whose tutelage I not only learned good skills but those of general sportsmanship as well. My younger brother was fortunate enough to play directly under Walter and with Brian until our family moved back to eastern WA in 1972.

 

As a young kid I grew up playing the traditional American football-basketball-baseball, but through the leadership of the Schmetzer family, many in our Lake City area learned to embrace soccer, at least as much as the trad US sports. It was the main sport I competitively played until well into my adult years.

 

Here's an article Brian wrote about his story, with a couple pic's, of growing up with soccer in Seattle. I remember well those socks and playing in the rain and mud. Good times.

 

GO SOUNDERS!!!

[Fairweather]

Did the ball go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth...?

[olyclimber]

thats what balls have done since the beginning of time

[pindude]

Did the ball go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth...?

 

To the ignorant and uninformed, it especially appears to do that.

[minx]

Did the ball go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth...?

 

doesn't that describe most sports involving a ball?

[builder206]

In golf it's supposed to go forward only but sometimes it goes off to the side. In bullfighting the balls go around in circles then they stop moving all at once.

[akhalteke]

I not only learned good skills but those of general sportsmanship as well.

 

I heard a quote once when I was playing rugby in college.

 

Rugby is the hooligans' game played by gentlemen. Soccer on the other hand is the gentlemans' game played by hooligans

 

Those fairy bitches have no self respect. They take a little bump and lay on the ground writhing like school girls that got maced. If this sport ever takes off as well as you say it will, it will say a lot about our country:

 

That we have all turned into bitches.