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Thank You Fans

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:49:24 +0000

Hi,

I felt I wanted to say something. When I’ve been out and about in the city, the enormous support and appreciation I’ve got from people on the street has touched me deeply. So I just wanted to say a humble thank you to all the people of Seattle and to my teammates who have shown me so much love during this time with a million people speculating.

THANK YOU,

New game against Los Angeles Galaxy

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:46:15 +0000

We’ve been playing great lately. We haven’t got the results we have wanted but that will come. As I see it, here in America the playoffs are the important thing. I was worried in the beginning of the year because we weren’t playing as well as we should have done. The way we played, even if we got some lucky results in the beginning, won’t win you the playoffs. Now we have showed a play that we can fall back on. We have made the opponents run, and not the other way around in the last two games and that gives you confidence. We have created a lot of chances as we did as well last year, but were missing a lot. I think that’s what the club saw and that’s why early on we signed Blaise. I hear he is a player that is always there in the box and puts in the balls. With that in mind I think we are moving in the right direction, and adding him in the summer there will be more goals scored.

On a personal note, I am back playing center midfield again, which i love. Us playing 3 in the middle gives us an advantage in possession.

Lets hope we can go on a little winning streak and get some points. Think a win on saturday will put us second in our division

//F

Extremely disappointing to draw against the defending champions

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:58:13 +0000

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After calming down the feelings. Here comes a reflextion from the game.

Extremely disappointing to draw against the defending champions away when we were 2-1 up and they score the equalizer in the 94th minute. Think they are the best team in the league to keep the ball and that is something we have to look at and work on. It is inspiring to see how well they play football and something that I admire them for. We had some more chances in the 2nd half on counter attacks but unfortunately we couldn’t make them count. When you play the defending champions away from home you know it’s gonna be a hard game. We lost there last year and struggled. In this game we put out a team for counter attacking. Think we did that well but unfortunately the win slipped threw our hands in the last second.

On a personal note 2nd half felt great. Got the ball to go at the defenders a bit. Felt great we scored from a free kick as well. There was a lot of Sounders fans in the stands which was great to see. The stadium was packed so it was a great atmosphere on the whole.

First game of the season is over and it feels great

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:51:11 +0000

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Finally we have played the first game and we won, it feels great. Think we started the game really well and created a lot of chances and maybe should’ve killed off the game before we did. A great team win.

Only negative off the game was their tackles from behind. Just something you don’t do as your opponent has no way off protecting themselves. Thankfully one of their guys got sent off but could’ve been more. I personally got a knee straight in my spine from behind shouldn’t happen that you can knee someone that high up when the ball is 3 yards away on the ground (Straight after the game we went to the ER to get my spine x-rayed as I couldn’t and still cant sit or lay on my back. Luckily no fractures. Only bone bruising. The doctor compared the injury with an NFL injury when someone uses their helmet to crash it into someone’s spine. Hopefully ill recover quickly). Then Montero got a similar one and then the guy was off. You just have to trust that the ref is doing their job and you just try to do yours. Have sometimes been very critical of the refs not doing anything about over violent play that can injur your opponent but I think the ref did a great job last night.

For me after the tackle on me my evening was over, tried to stay on to help the team until I thought the game was over in around the 60th min. During that time I couldn’t run but tried to use my experience to help the guys on the pitch. Something me and Siggi discussed at halftime.

Was great to see Fucito out there in the second half. He has really improved and looked great in pre season. Proves that if you work hard you get your chances. He has a great left foot look out for that.

You fans were absolutely amazing was nice to see and hear you guys again. Despite the heavy rain you were there in numbers and were very loud.

Thanks for the support.
//F

Finally been an agreement on the CBA

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:24:07 +0000

As everybody probably knows there has finally been an agreement on the CBA. The lawyers seems to have done a good job. Now finally we can concentrate on doin our job and that’s to play football. I am so happy. Really lookin forward to the first game of the season!!

//F